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Re: MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2008, 20:47 UTC
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"Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
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> I stuck this in my config and it works-for-me:
>
> [format]
> 	headers = \
> "MIME-Version: 1.0\n\
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n\
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

I suspect that you shouldn't do this. This would badly interfere both with existing format-patch behaviour that adds these MIME-Version and Content-Type headers by looking at the contents, and with recent format-patch fix 6bf4f1b (format-patch: generate MIME header as needed even when there is format.header, 2008-03-14) to make the detection based on contents (and presense of format.headers).

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Message 19 of 25 in “Add MIME information to outgoing email”
  1. Add MIME information to outgoing emailSamuel Tardieu, Mar 13, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  3. Samuel TardieuMar 13, 2008
  4. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  5. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  6. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  7. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  8. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  9. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2008
  11. Re* [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing emailJunio C Hamano, Mar 14, 2008
  12. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  14. Samuel TardieuMar 13, 2008
  15. Brian SwetlandMar 14, 2008
  16. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  17. MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)Teemu Likonen, Mar 25, 2008
  18. Jay SoffianMar 25, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2008
  20. Jay SoffianMar 25, 2008
  21. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  23. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  24. Jay SoffianMar 26, 2008
  25. Jan HudecApr 10, 2008

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