Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20070427192917.GA23169@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <d51pzpqo.fsf@cante.net>

Jari Aalto, Fri, Apr 27, 2007 19:33:35 +0200:

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> > Having said that, I think that you can actually teach every mail app 
> > (except maybe web-based ones) to respect formatting, including white 
> > space.
> 
> I hope the development team considers this. There is another uses case
> that I can think of too:
> 
> - Sending non us-ascii patches (different langauge)

not a good use case: you can send text/plain mails with UTF-8 content just as easily. And the patches will apply.

P.S. You ignored the suggestion to implement base64. Why?