From: Baz Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:36:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make generated MSVC solution file open from Windows Explorer Message-ID: <2faad3050909280336r61e11b20nb52629a8fe95b0c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 2009/9/26 Sebastian Schuberth : > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:05, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >> Odd.  If I copy and paste from Thunderbird, its fine.  But if I >> save the body out as an attachment from mutt, it fails. >> >> I wonder if it has to do with the From header appearing in the top >> of the body; this header has to be escaped with a leading space in >> mbox format.  It looks like Thunderbird might be doing some magic to >> remove that leading space from the context lines, while mutt isn't. FYI: the Thunderbird version included this header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The format=flowed part shows that Thunderbird is reformatting whitespace. You can disable that: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email 'flowed' is a lossy transformation of text, so git won't attempt to fix patches that have been mangled that way. There's a longer explanation from Junio here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/2/15/867294 Hope this helps, Baz >> >> Next time, don't include the first From line? > > Will try. So what about these two patches? Should I re-send them with > the first "From" stripped? > > Or will *.patch files that are attached to emails, instead of sending > the patch inline, be accepted? > > -- > Sebastian Schuberth > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >