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Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 21, 2008, 12:04 UTC
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<20081121120435.GC3747@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:37:08PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > As a curiosity, why is such a check even neccessary?
> I'm not an author of that strange check (possible it's somehow related
> to b8ebe08b9a643f432866eb7150c3b20d59b755f2)

I am the author, and it was a direct response to a user who had something in his mail path munging overly long lines (which are, in fact, disallowed by rfc 2822).

Read this thread:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/70847

which contains the problem report and the patches. We could take this one step further (but didn't at the time) by QP-encoding the body part with long lines, which is what a normal MUA would do. Since the receiving tools for git handle this situation, it should work fine. I think such a patch would be welcome.

-Peff
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Message 8 of 12 in “git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols”
  1. git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbolsAndy Shevchenko, Nov 21, 2008
  2. ArafangionNov 21, 2008
  3. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  4. Teemu LikonenNov 21, 2008
  5. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  6. ArafangionNov 21, 2008
  7. Andreas EricssonNov 21, 2008
  8. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008
  9. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008
  10. Michael J GruberNov 21, 2008
  11. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  12. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008

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