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

From
Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2009, 15:38 UTC
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<49904DE7.2080205@codeweavers.com>
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> 
> I don't know how you're injecting the email to Thunderbird. mailto:?

We have a utility, git-imap-send, that sends the email into the drafts folder.

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> 
> What you propose is a header, not a body.
> (I'm a bit irritated that TB would react to a charset header *in the 
> body*, but maybe that's a hack specially for charsets, in some code part 
> I don't know, given that they are unfortunately sometimes only marked in 
> content.)

Ah, rats. I figured that picking charset out of the body might be considered a bug; I was hoping it was a feature :-/.

> 
> I think it would most likely work easily if you inject HTML (read before 
> you scream):
/me carefully takes the nice coat with extra long sleeves out <grin>.
I've tried this, and *shudder*, it appears to work.

I'll cobble up an experimental patch to git-format-patch to see if this is tractable.

Cheers,
Jeremy
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Message 14 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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