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Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols

From
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2008, 10:37 UTC
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> As a curiosity, why is such a check even neccessary?

I'm not an author of that strange check (possible it's somehow related to b8ebe08b9a643f432866eb7150c3b20d59b755f2)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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  1. git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbolsAndy Shevchenko, Nov 21, 2008
  2. ArafangionNov 21, 2008
  3. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  4. Teemu LikonenNov 21, 2008
  5. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  6. ArafangionNov 21, 2008
  7. Andreas EricssonNov 21, 2008
  8. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008
  9. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008
  10. Michael J GruberNov 21, 2008
  11. Andy ShevchenkoNov 21, 2008
  12. Jeff KingNov 21, 2008

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