Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2006, 09:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20061103095859.GC16721@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0611030139i7be9569bh4a29596a768e82a3@mail.gmail.com>

On 2006-11-03 09:39:57 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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> On 02/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
>
> > That Gnus shows =20 suggests that I haven't got the QP encoding
> > 100% right. I haven't had time to look at that yet, and it looks
> > like you may beat me to it.
>
> Well, it might be just the way I read the list (via the gmane news
> gateway) but I have to run some tests.

I believe all the mails I send with mutt are QP-encoded, and they don't look funny, do they? (You'd see the separator just above my signature as "--=20" if that was the case; it has a trailing whitespace.)

> However, I'd like the message body to still be 8bit and the QP
> encoding optional (either command line option or [stgit] config
> variable).

Are you sure? Wouldn't it be better to teach StGIT to eat QP-encoded mails, and use 7bit encoding when the patch is all ascii? (And still have an option to force 8bit instead of QP if desired, of course.)

I'm really not comfortable with assuming all mail servers are 8-bit clean, when they're evidently not. :-)

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com