From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:04:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols
Message-ID: <20081121120435.GC3747@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <5ec8ebd50811210237kd6f9341q23bc69b6ffcc2a87@mail.gmail.com>

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