Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.)

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Feb 10, 2009, 01:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Ce-i8YGodObEhlk_H5OxuxM3Cl-9xyMV3FsGyHWSuA3PTJS_jkfSig@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <4990B24A.4000801@beonex.com>

Ben Bucksch wrote:

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> On 09.02.2009 23:28, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> But it's the latter one that gives me the *correct* results. :b
>>    
> Oh. As I showed, File | Save As... in normal msg viewer works here.
> When I save in View Source, the file is different, and diff -u shows
> every line different, and diff -uw shows no difference. Therefore, I
> think it's the line ending.

For me diff -u shows a removal of one line and an insertion of two lines at the same location. The ^M has been converted into a newline.

> FWIW, I'm on Linux, in case TB adapts to the system line ending in one
> case and not in the other, which may explain the difference between what
> we see.

Also using linux here.

Would Thunderbird possibly do a blind conversion of ^M to newline?

-brandon