From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:55:49 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140914004725.GA28010@peff.net> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:57:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > 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?