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

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BBBen Bucksch <ben.bucksch.news@beonex.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2009, 19:09 UTC
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On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote:
> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control characters in
> it.
>

I can only advise against sending patches in the bodies, sorry. Bodies are for human-language text. Attachments are for files like diffs, and are preserved. Attachments with "Content-Disposition: inline" are for attachments which are supposed to be read directly in the email reader, like is the case here.

I guess that other, console-based email software won't deal with inline attachments as nicely, but the major email clients do. Instead of trying to do something that's going to be fruitless - email bodies are never going to be character-to-character identical, because there are many demands on formatting (up to graphical smiles) and from many different languages (charsets, like seems to be the problem here) on it by users -, I think your better route for success would be to use inline attachments and fix the software which can't deal with *that* properly, including display and quoting.

Sorry to brush you off, but I this is a battle we can't win, either way. Too many demands from too many sides.

Ben
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Message 19 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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