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Re: Please make git-am handle \r\n-damaged patches

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 4, 2009, 21:05 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 22:59, Erik Faye-Lund<kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I thought about this approach, but it made me worried about a case where
>> an otherwise sane piece of e-mail has \r at the end of one line as the
>> real payload. But as long as we are talking about a text e-mail (and we
>> are talking about mailsplit here and a binary payload with a CTE applied
>> counts as text), I think we can safely use an approach like this.
>
> RFC 2822, section 2.3 explicitly states that a CR should not occur
> without a LF (and vice versa, but the e-mail client might convert CRLF
> to LF when saving to file), so I think this should be safe.

You missed this line in original posters e-mail: "In a serious case of craniorectal immersion..."

We are not safe from that and alike.
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Message 23 of 33 in “Please make git-am handle \r\n-damaged patches”
  1. H. Peter AnvinAug 3, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2009
  3. Wesley J. LandakerAug 3, 2009
  4. H. Peter AnvinAug 3, 2009
  5. H. Peter AnvinAug 3, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierAug 3, 2009
  7. H. Peter AnvinAug 3, 2009
  8. Paolo BonziniAug 4, 2009
  9. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2009
  11. Let mailsplit and mailinfo handle mails with CRLF line-endingsAlex Riesen, Aug 4, 2009
  12. Sverre RabbelierAug 4, 2009
  13. Brandon CaseyAug 4, 2009
  14. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  15. Let mailsplit and mailinfo handle mails with CRLF line-endingsAlex Riesen, Aug 4, 2009
  16. Brandon CaseyAug 4, 2009
  17. Brandon CaseyAug 4, 2009
  18. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  19. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  20. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  21. Brandon CaseyAug 4, 2009
  22. Erik Faye-LundAug 4, 2009
  23. Alex RiesenAug 4, 2009
  24. Erik Faye-LundAug 4, 2009
  25. Tony FinchAug 5, 2009
  26. Nanako ShiraishiAug 4, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2009
  28. 0/4 Re: Please make git-am handle \r\n-damaged patchesBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2009
  29. 1/4 strbuf: add new function strbuf_getwholeline()Brandon Casey, Aug 5, 2009
  30. 2/4 builtin-mailinfo,builtin-mailsplit: use strbufsBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2009
  31. 3/4 builtin-mailsplit.c: remove read_line_with_nul() since it is no longer usedBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2009
  32. 4/4 Allow mailsplit (and hence git-am) to handle mails with CRLF line-endingsBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2009
  33. Alex RiesenAug 5, 2009

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