Re: git am and CRLF files

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Erik Faye-Lund
> <kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> According to RFC 5322, email messages use CRLF as the
>> newline-sequence. In order to be able to distinguish between CRLF and
>> LF in an e-mail patch, the message needs to be use some
>> transfer-encoding that preserves newline style (like base64).
>>
>> Perhaps this would be better fixed by having format-patch (or prehaps
>> the MUA ?) base64-encode the message body if the file contains
>> non-LF-newlines, and normalizing CRLF to LF before transport-decoding?
>> Or does some MUAs transport-decode before storing the message to disk?
>>
>> I realize this might make it a bit tricky to review patches that
>> contains CRLF-newlines before mailing them out, but perhaps inspecting
>> the format-patch output is the wrong place to do this?
> 
> 
> why don't adding that information in the mail header?
> or may be made format-patch create a "comment line" with that information?
> 
> if that line is missing it could keep the default behavior (what it
> did until now)
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