From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:24:39 GMT Subject: Re: PATCH: Allow format-patch to attach patches Message-ID: <440CFCF7.9090407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vpskz5aqh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicely done. ... > The only two and half minor issues I might have about this are: > ... > > (2) is it possible to cheaply come up with a safe mime-magic, > instead of a hardcoded long string and hope it does not > clash? Base64 encode a large number (160?) of bits from /dev/urandom.