From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stupid quoting...
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:53:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070619205313.GA90303@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191048570.4059@racer.site>
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:50:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > Don't just throw away backwards compatibility, only because it does
> > > not fit your wishes.
> >
> > There is no backwards compatibility involved here _at_ _all_.
>
> I was not talking about Git here. The specification for SMTP is not going
> to change just because you want it. There are still mail servers out there
> which speak 7-bit, and the standard requires you to cope with them.
There are standards to send 8-bit into 7-bit for email, and \xxx is in
none of them. And 8-to-7 encoding for email is not git's job in any
case unless git speaks SMTP directly. 8-to-7 is the mail client
responsability.
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 11:30 Stupid quoting David Kastrup
2007-06-13 12:06 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-13 12:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86ejkgvxmb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 0:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-14 7:06 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <86hcpb6lr6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 8:51 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-14 1:06 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 1:19 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-16 21:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-18 8:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 16:19 ` Jeff King
2007-06-19 1:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 9:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 20:53 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
[not found] ` <86645kutow.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-20 2:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-20 6:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-20 7:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 8:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-20 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 6:50 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 11:14 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 11:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 11:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 12:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 12:41 ` Jeff King
2007-06-24 16:25 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 19:39 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 20:17 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 20:25 ` David Kastrup
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