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Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)

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Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2009, 13:52 UTC
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> Yeah, I think my background dictates that I stay by my word and recommend 
> other mailers than Thunderbird.
> 
> It is one thing to be nice to the "average" user, but another one to be 
> unfriendly to the people making the internet revolution possible.
Gah!  With all due respect, I think this attitude is a part of the problem.

It is clear to me that Ben and all the Thunderbird devs are doing their level best to make the best possible MUA.

Patch senders are a tiny fraction of the Thunderbird user base, and it's reasonable to down prioritize our concerns. Even so, Ben has spent a lot of time on this issue. One of my great frustrations on the bug I copied was that I thought that Robin was articulating some valid points, but then couldn't help flaming on, thereby making it much harder for any human Mozilla dev to want to help.

I'd like to hope that there is a reasonable solution that works both for us and for the general public.

I spent some time with the git-format-patch code as well as the Thunderbird code. I discovered that if I just injected charset=iso-2022-jp, format=flowed would stay off! <grin>

Ben, along those lines, we do have the ability to control the entire body of a possible patch before Thunderbird sees it. Would it be possible, or reasonable, for Thunderbird to look for and preserve a 'format=fixed' setting inside a body that we generated?

Cheers,
Jeremy
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Message 12 of 44 in “Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.”
  1. Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.Jeremy White, Feb 8, 2009
  2. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Feb 8, 2009
  3. Jeremy WhiteFeb 8, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2009
  5. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  6. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  8. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  9. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Feb 9, 2009
  10. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  12. Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)Jeremy White, Feb 9, 2009
  13. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  14. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  15. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  16. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  17. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  18. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  19. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  21. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  22. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  23. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  24. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  25. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  26. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  27. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  28. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  29. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  30. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  31. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  32. Brandon CaseyFeb 10, 2009
  33. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  34. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2009
  35. Michael J GruberFeb 10, 2009
  36. Miles BaderFeb 12, 2009
  37. Michael J GruberFeb 12, 2009
  38. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2009
  39. example patch corrupted by thunderbirdBrandon Casey, Feb 9, 2009
  40. Michael J GruberFeb 9, 2009
  41. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  42. Jeremy WhiteFeb 9, 2009
  43. Ben BuckschFeb 9, 2009
  44. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2009

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