From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:33:35 GMT
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content
Message-ID: <d51pzpqo.fsf@cante.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704271541010.12006@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> FEAURE REQUEST
>> --------------
>> 
>> Add sme option to git-format-path to encode thae patch content 
>> (MIME/base64)
>
> Although you ask politely, and have a good explanation why you need it, 
> there is a strong sentiment in some Git developers (most notably, Git's 
> inventor) against this kind of support.
>
> You might have more luck when you decide to implement it yourself, and 
> submit it, though (if it is not too intrusive, I see people adding it, if 
> only to add even more rope to those willing to hang themselves).
>
> 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). 

Jari