From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:05:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email
Message-ID: <2008-03-13-20-05-55+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcfaxxxk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 13/03, Junio C Hamano wrote:

| Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:
| 
| > Add MIME-Version/Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers in
| > messages generated with git-format-patch. Without it, messages generated
| > without using --attach or --inline didn't have any content type information.
| 
| Isn't that job for send-email (or user's MUA)?  I really do not think we
| want to clutter format-patch output any more than necessary.

Only format-patch knows what encoding has been used by itself to
generate the message. Doing it at any later stage would have to guess
what the correct charset is.