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[PATCH 0/2] format-patch handling in-body From headers

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 3, 2013, 07:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20130703070719.GA17638@sigill.intra.peff.net>

As I've mentioned before on the list, I don't use git-send-email, but rather a home-grown script that interacts more closely with my regular MUA. After embarrassing myself on multiple occasions by its inability to automatically handle sending patches by other authors, I decided to implement send-email's "stick the original author in a body header" scheme.

However, doing it right is kind of tricky due to rfc822 quoting, rfc2047 encoding, and handling non-ascii names correctly. Instead, this patch series takes a different approach: it teaches format-patch to do the transformation itself, so that it can be used by my script along with any other non-send-email workflows that exist (e.g., git-imap-send suffers from the same problem).

  [1/2]: pretty.c: drop const-ness from pretty_print_context
  [2/2]: teach format-patch to place other authors into in-body "From"
-Peff
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