Re: [PATCH] doc: add caveat about roundtripping format-patch

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
Date: Feb 10, 2026, 00:53 UTC
Message-ID: <83b776c4c3b6092f9714adc157ac6a38af1022f7.camel@scientia.org>
In-Reply-To: <format-patch_caveats.281@msgid.xyz>

Hey.

While it's nice to see it getting documented (thanks for that)... wouldn't it be even better to actually fix the underlying issue? :-)

I mean it's all but guaranteed that everyone reads this,... and IMO the problem might even be exploited security wise.

Cheers, Chris.

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