Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Nov 21, 2008, 12:49 UTC
Message-ID: <4926AE4E.5000604@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081121115813.GB3747@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 21.11.2008 12:58:

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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:59:24AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
>> By default git-send-email does not accept patch which is contain lines longer
>> than 998 symbols. Sometime it's inconvenient, i.e. you have a long list in one
>> variable in shell script. So, define environment variable
>> GIT_SEND_EMAIL_LONGLINE to something to avoid that restriction.
> 
> This already exists as "git send-email --no-validate", which
> unfortunately doesn't seem to be documented. Care to send in a
> documentation patch instead?

In fact it is documented in git-send-email.txt:

--[no-]validate::
        Perform sanity checks on patches.
        Currently, validation means the following:
+
--
                *       Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
998 characters; this
                        is due to SMTP limits as described by
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
--
+
Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set,
default to '--validate'.

Cheers, Michael