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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Mark Einon <mark.einon@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:47:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140914004725.GA28010@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140913225713.GB189120@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:57:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:25:05PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > Thanks both of you for following up. I did confirm that git-send-email
> > does not add such quoting. From your findings above, I'd agree that it's
> > the list-archive software munging it, and they are buggy IMHO (they
> > should de-quote on display).
> 
> I wonder if git send-email should do what mutt does in this case, which
> is use quoted-printable encoding and encode the first F as =46 (as well
> as any equals signs as =3D).  It looks like mailinfo.c already is
> capable of handling that, and that would avoid the entire issue.

That's not an unreasonable tactic. However, I think we'd still want to
do something with mailinfo on the receiving end, similar to the patch I
sent. We don't know that the sending side is necessarily send-email.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-14  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1410472786-14552-1-git-send-email-mark.einon@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <1410472786-14552-5-git-send-email-mark.einon@gmail.com>
2014-09-13  9:37   ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: et131x: Remove ununsed statistics Dan Carpenter
2014-09-13 15:45     ` Greg KH
2014-09-13 19:41       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-13 20:36       ` Jeff King
2014-09-13 20:47         ` Mark Einon
2014-09-13 20:57           ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-13 21:06             ` Mark Einon
2014-09-13 21:09             ` Dan Carpenter
2014-09-13 21:25               ` [RFC/PATCH] mailinfo: do not treat ">From" lines as in-body headers Jeff King
2014-09-13 22:57                 ` brian m. carlson
2014-09-14  0:47                   ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-09-14  0:55                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-14  1:01                       ` Jeff King
2014-09-14  1:30                         ` Jeff King
2014-09-15 18:56                           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-15 20:15                             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-16  0:19                               ` Jeff King
2014-09-16 18:01                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-16 18:41                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-16 20:29                                     ` Jeff King
2014-09-16  0:12                             ` Jeff King
2014-09-15 17:55                         ` Junio C Hamano

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