From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:47:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] format-patch: rfc2047-encode newlines in headers
Message-ID: <7vhbbu7792.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110223095917.GC9222@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> These should generally never happen, as we already
> concatenate multiples in subjects into a single line. But
> let's be defensive, since not encoding them means we will
> output malformed headers.

In this particular case, wouldn't it be more conservative and defensive to
produce malformed headers so that the patch won't leave the originator?  I
have a suspicion that mailinfo would choke on the output of this one, even
though I didn't try.