From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:12:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: Properly escape From_ lines when creating an mbox.
Message-ID: <7vhblan9xw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87mxv2hola.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> Another option would be to just emit RFC2822 messages unless the user
> passes an explicit option to format-patch (such as --mbox, which would
> be implied by --stdout). Then git would generate legitimate (unqoted)
> messages and legitimate (quoted) mbox files.
>
> I'd leave it to you to decide whether the --mbox option should be on by
> default or phased in with a warning or whatever.
>
> What do you think?

It sounds like that one good way to transition is to phase in --mbox as an
optional feature and at a revision bump later make that the default (which
would mean that we might need a --not-a-mbox option).  I haven't thought
things through though...

Thanks.