From: Michael J Gruber Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:49:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols 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: > 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