Re: [PATCH] format-patch: escape "From " lines recognized by mailsplit

> Users have mistakenly copied "From " lines into commit messages
> in the past, and will certainly make the same mistakes in the
> future.  Since not everyone uses mboxrd, yet, we should at least
> prevent miss-split mails by always escaping "From " lines based
> on the check used by mailsplit.
>
> mailsplit will not perform unescaping by default, yet, as it
> could cause further invocations of format-patch from old
> versions of git to generate bad output.  Propagating the mboxo
> escaping is preferable to miss-split patches.  Unescaping may
> still be performed via "--mboxrd".