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Re: [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers

From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Sep 13, 2014, 22:57 UTC
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<20140913225713.GB189120@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
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<20140913212504.GA25190@peff.net>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:25:05PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> Thanks both of you for following up. I did confirm that git-send-email
> does not add such quoting. From your findings above, I'd agree that it's
> the list-archive software munging it, and they are buggy IMHO (they
> should de-quote on display).

I wonder if git send-email should do what mutt does in this case, which is use quoted-printable encoding and encode the first F as =46 (as well as any equals signs as =3D). It looks like mailinfo.c already is capable of handling that, and that would avoid the entire issue.

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  2. Greg KHSep 13, 2014
  3. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
  4. Jeff KingSep 13, 2014
  5. Mark EinonSep 13, 2014
  6. Dan CarpenterSep 13, 2014
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  9. mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headersJeff King, Sep 13, 2014
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