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Re: [BUG] format-patch does not wrap From-field after author name

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 14, 2011, 17:12 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
> With certain combinations of author name and email lengths, git
> format-patch does not correctly wrap the From line to be below 78
> characters, violating rfc2047.

Didn't we have this fixed quite a while ago with the series that ends at c22e7de (format-patch: rfc2047-encode newlines in headers, 2011-02-23)?

What version of git do you use?
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