Re: Stupid quoting...

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 24, 2007, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID: <85myypef7p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm2ptw04.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> If I were to create a patch between two versions of such a file, the
> diff header would show the pathname encoded in one, and the changed
> contents would ben shown in another.  As long as you treat "git
> diff" output as binary blob, that would work just fine, but when you
> have to transmit such a diff in e-mail as an in-line patch, you
> would have troubles.

ASCII-armoring of what amounts to binary files is the task of the mail software. Also working with encodings. Escaping characters in the diff headers but not in the file contents is not going to achieve anything useful, anyway.

With the proper mailing software, you can get your diff across the line in a manner where the other side can make use of it. This is not the case for unarmored mail with ^ escapes in them, since the receiving side can't distinguish them from "real" ^ characters.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum