From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:19:54 GMT Subject: Re: [Virtual PATCH] Add an option to wrap a patch in 
 in git-imap-send which ironically results in a cleaner patch from Thunderbird.
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In-Reply-To: <499446D0.90602@codeweavers.com>

I do not think of a reason, other than to trigger the workaround you
mentioned in the documentation part of the patch, why any sane user would
want to send a patch as HTML.  This configuration variable sounds more
like "imap.forceThunderbirdToSendNonFlowedTextByExploitingItsBug" than
"imap.html", in other words.

What worries me the most is if there is any guarantee that this bug you
are exploiting to force it to send a patch in the common denominator
format _will not be fixed_ in future versions of Thunderbird.

I see your patch deals only with ampersand, less-than, greater-than and
dquot.  Do you know if this is enough, or would letters outside US-ASCII
need to be expressed in ampersand-hash "character reference" notation?