Re: [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2014, 00:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWxZdi+JTTsznefPk2U+Q8uWWYuBUa-rJA4knDZzwU38w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140914004725.GA28010@peff.net>

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:57:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
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> > I wonder if git send-email should do what mutt does in this case, which
> > is use quoted-printable encoding and encode the first F as =46 (as well
> > as any equals signs as =3D).  It looks like mailinfo.c already is
> > capable of handling that, and that would avoid the entire issue.
>
> That's not an unreasonable tactic. However, I think we'd still want to
> do something with mailinfo on the receiving end, similar to the patch I
> sent. We don't know that the sending side is necessarily send-email.

Hmm, isn't the ">" stuffing in front of a beginning-of-line "From " purely a local matter of MUA that stores messages in (old-style) mbox format where a line that begins with "From " is what defines the end of the previous message? Why should send-email do anything when it sends individual messages separately out?