From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:59:47 GMT Subject: Re: Please make git-am handle \r\n-damaged patches Message-ID: <40aa078e0908041359p79b111eo2f389dde25bb0876@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v7hxk5b4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I thought about this approach, but it made me worried about a case where > an otherwise sane piece of e-mail has \r at the end of one line as the > real payload. But as long as we are talking about a text e-mail (and we > are talking about mailsplit here and a binary payload with a CTE applied > counts as text), I think we can safely use an approach like this. RFC 2822, section 2.3 explicitly states that a CR should not occur without a LF (and vice versa, but the e-mail client might convert CRLF to LF when saving to file), so I think this should be safe. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund kusmabite@gmail.com (+47) 986 59 656