From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:01:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: check for lines longer than 998 characters
Message-ID: <7v4pdbfle1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47908150.9040201@users.sourceforge.net>

Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> But what next? Still send the problematic patches not encoded?

I meant "warn and stop before sending anything".  The sender can
fix it up in any way he wants.

You _could_ give an option to send-email to allow it to QP and
wrap without failing (perhaps with warning), but that should be
explicitly asked for, as some people/list do not want MIME.  On
such a list, the sender may even have to go back to the tree and
fix the file contents before regenerating the patches.