From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:11:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: escape "From " lines recognized by mailsplit
Message-ID: <xmqqk2gb8q81.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160722224739.GA22961@whir>

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

> 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".

As a tool to produce mbox file, quoting like this in format-patch
output may make sense, I would think, but shouldn't send-email undo
this when sending individual patches?