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Re: [PATCH] sequencer: support folding in rfc2822 footer

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JTJonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date
Sep 6, 2016, 23:30 UTC
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On 09/06/2016 03:08 PM, Jonathan Tan wrote:
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> On 09/02/2016 07:23 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> A slightly related tangent.  An unconditionally good change you
>> could make is to allow folding of in-body headers.  I.e. you can
>> have e.g.
>>
>>     -- >8 --
>>     Subject: [PATCH] sequencer: support in-body headers that are
>>          folded according to RFC2822 rules
>>
>>     The first paragraph after the above long title begins
>>     here...
>>
>> in the body of the msssage, and I _think_ we do not fold it properly
>> when applying such a patch.  We should, as that is something that
>> appears in format-patch output (i.e. something Git itself produces,
>> unlike the folded "footer").
>
> OK, I'll take a look at this.

It turns out that Git seems to already do this, at least for Subject. Transcript below:

$ echo one > file.txt
$ git add file.txt
$ git commit -m x
[master (root-commit) 2389483] x
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
  create mode 100644 file.txt
$ echo two > file.txt
$ git commit -am 'this is a very long subject to test line wrapping this 
is a very long subject to test line wrapping'
[master ca86792] this is a very long subject to test line wrapping this 
is a very long subject to test line wrapping
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
$ git format-patch HEAD^
0001-this-is-a-very-long-subject-to-test-line-wrapping-th.patch
$ cat 0001-this-is-a-very-long-subject-to-test-line-wrapping-th.patch
<snip>
Subject: [PATCH] this is a very long subject to test line wrapping this is a
  very long subject to test line wrapping
<snip>
Previous: Jonathan TanNext: Jeff King
Message 4 of 24 in “sequencer: support folding in rfc2822 footer”
  1. sequencer: support folding in rfc2822 footerJonathan Tan, Sep 2, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2016
  3. Jonathan TanSep 6, 2016
  4. Jonathan TanSep 6, 2016
  5. Jeff KingSep 7, 2016
  6. 0/3 handle multiline in-body headersJonathan Tan, Sep 16, 2016
  7. 1/3 mailinfo: refactor commit message processingJonathan Tan, Sep 16, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  9. Jeff KingSep 16, 2016
  10. 2/3 mailinfo: correct malformed test exampleJonathan Tan, Sep 16, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  12. Jonathan TanSep 16, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  14. Jonathan TanSep 17, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2016
  16. 3/3 mailinfo: handle in-body header continuationsJonathan Tan, Sep 16, 2016
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  18. Jonathan TanSep 16, 2016
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  20. Jonathan TanSep 16, 2016
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016
  22. Jonathan TanSep 17, 2016
  23. Jeff KingSep 16, 2016
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2016

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