Re: git format-patch escaping issues in the patch format

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
Date: Nov 5, 2024, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <3a96888e76e4dd26a3b0a81a19cda8ec7de72662.camel@scientia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20241104235432.GB3017597@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, 2024-11-04 at 18:54 -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> As you note, the mbox format is not well defined. :) The variant with
> ">"-quoting of "From" lines is often called "mboxrd", and you can get
> it
> with the "--format=mboxrd" option.

But as you've said below, here too, the receiving side most likely doesn’t know that and then a wrong commit message would be applied (with no unescaping being performed or it would simply break again when the magic From is used).

Cheers, Chris.