From 7f81aa6012164f64876c9ad370105792b6042953 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:42:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] thread: prune empty messages from top with only one child

---
 thread.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index 829fe02..b645233 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -242,6 +242,22 @@ find_roots()
 	top->next = 0;
 }
 
+void
+prune_tree(struct container *c, int depth)
+{
+	do {
+		if (c->child)
+			prune_tree(c->child, depth+1);
+		if (!c->file && c->child && !c->child->next) {
+			// turn into child if we don't exist and only have a child
+			c->mid = c->child->mid;
+			c->file = c->child->file;
+			c->msg = c->child->msg;
+			c->child = c->child->child;
+		}
+	} while ((c = c->next));
+}
+
 void
 print_tree(struct container *c, int depth)
 {
@@ -267,7 +283,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	int i = blaze822_loop(argc-1, argv+1, thread);
 
 	find_roots();
-
+	prune_tree(top, -1);
 	print_tree(top, -1);
 
 	fprintf(stderr, "%d mails threaded\n", i);