Re: [PATCH 2/3] send-email: accept long lines with suitable transfer encoding

> On 2018-07-06  2:23 AM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> > index a76953c310..4ea30c4070 100755
> > --- a/git-send-email.perl
> > +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> > @@ -1899,6 +1899,10 @@ sub validate_patch {
> >  		return $hook_error if $hook_error;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	# Any long lines will be automatically fixed if we use a suitable transfer
> > +	# encoding.
> > +	return if $xfer_encoding =~ /^(?:auto|quoted-printable|base64)$/;
> 
> Rather than returning in this case I'd sooner wrap the length check in
> this test. If additional checks are added in the future it'd be too easy
> to accidentally skip them if the transfer encoding is quoted-printable.