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 9, 2009, 19:30 UTC
Message-ID: <r57oMSnamWCJ1G1-r98G6mYQjX0YNpQz1OzEBHSrDifmBU_ir2P77A@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <4990820B.504@beonex.com>

Ben Bucksch wrote:

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> On 09.02.2009 20:14, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote:
>>>> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control
>>>> characters in it.
>>>>        
> 
>> Especially the "Save" command will save the byte-identical body of the
>> mail.
>>    
> 
> I think Thunderbird will also save a byte-identical copy of the mail, if
> you use File | Save... and use ".eml" (for email = RFC822) file extension.

Did you try it with the message I sent titled '[PATCH] example patch corrupted by thunderbird'?

The body of the patch has 1 hunk which adds 6 lines.

When I save with Thunderbird, part of what was on line 5 is now on another line and the control-M is missing. At least that is what is apparent to me.

> The dialog is sensitive to the file extension and determines the format
> based on that, but is unfortunately not communicative about it.

I did not modify the suggested file name. The saved file has a '.eml' extension.

> If you save as HTML (.html) or plaintext (.txt), it runs it through the
> MIME converters and reformats it for display / human reading.

Nope, '.eml' extension.

-brandon