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Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2006, 11:21 UTC
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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
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> One thing is certain, though: When I sent 8bit-encoded patches from
> StGIT to this list, the vger mail server added headers saying that it
> didn't like 8bit, and had re-encoded the mail (to what, I don't recall
> just now). It warned that in doing so, it had to make assumptions
> about the charset used. The assumption it had made was that the text
> was latin1, which is not so good when it is in fact utf8.
>
> This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great
> legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes.

I wonder if this can be solved by simply reusing the machinery format-patch already has. If calling it as a standalone script does more unnecessary things than what StGIT wants, we should certainly be able to separate the only necessary part out to suit StGIT's needs.

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Message 11 of 31 in “Allow hand-editing of patches before sending”
  1. Allow hand-editing of patches before sendingKarl Hasselström, Nov 1, 2006
  2. Catalin MarinasNov 2, 2006
  3. Karl HasselströmNov 2, 2006
  4. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  5. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  6. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisNov 3, 2006
  8. Robin RosenbergNov 3, 2006
  9. Andreas EricssonNov 3, 2006
  10. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2006
  12. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  13. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  14. Andy WhitcroftNov 3, 2006
  15. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  16. Andy WhitcroftNov 3, 2006
  17. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2006
  18. Karl HasselströmNov 5, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsNov 5, 2006
  20. Karl HasselströmNov 5, 2006
  21. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  22. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  23. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  24. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  25. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  26. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  27. Karl HasselströmNov 3, 2006
  28. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  29. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006
  30. Petr BaudisNov 3, 2006
  31. Catalin MarinasNov 3, 2006

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