From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0300 Organization: Private Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 27 20:07:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhUqY-0006Y7-2F for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756979AbXD0SG6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:06:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756981AbXD0SG6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:06:58 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49689 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756979AbXD0SG5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:06:57 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HhUgj-0008Om-7l for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:56:57 +0200 Received: from a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([81.197.175.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:56:57 +0200 Received: from jari.aalto by a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:56:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:95kolXVBIZazEFQNeUQvwVxk1rA= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> FEAURE REQUEST >> -------------- >> >> Add sme option to git-format-path to encode thae patch content >> (MIME/base64) > > Although you ask politely, and have a good explanation why you need it, > there is a strong sentiment in some Git developers (most notably, Git's > inventor) against this kind of support. > > You might have more luck when you decide to implement it yourself, and > submit it, though (if it is not too intrusive, I see people adding it, if > only to add even more rope to those willing to hang themselves). > > Having said that, I think that you can actually teach every mail app > (except maybe web-based ones) to respect formatting, including white > space. I hope the development team considers this. There is another uses case that I can think of too: - Sending non us-ascii patches (different langauge) For documentation or code (Java/XML allows UTF-8). Jari