From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:53:40 GMT
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704280452150.12006@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <d51pzpqo.fsf@cante.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
> >
> >> FEAURE REQUEST
> >> --------------
> >> 
> >> Add sme option to git-format-path to encode thae patch content 
> >> (MIME/base64)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Having said that, I think that you can actually teach every mail app 
> > (except maybe web-based ones) to respect formatting, including white 
> > space.
> 
> I hope the development team considers this. There is another uses case
> that I can think of too:
> 
> - Sending non us-ascii patches (different langauge)
> 
> For documentation or code (Java/XML allows UTF-8). 

That is no counterargument. I.e. it does not hold through basic scrutiny.

Ciao,
Dscho