From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Hofstetter <phofstetter@sensational.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-mailinfo doesn't stop parsing at the end of the header
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:42:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091118184231.GA29999@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bpizd8ua.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:46:43AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > I also think "git commit" would not be the right time for such a
> > feature. The problem is not that you have this text in your commit
> > message. The problem is that the "format-patch | am" transport is lossy.
> > You would do better to have format-patch say "Ah, this is going to
> > create a bogus email address" and somehow quote it appropriately.
>
> Doesn't mbox format have some way of escaping "From:" (or is it "From ")?
> If I remember correctly it uses ">From " or something for that.
> git-format-patch could do this also (perhaps only with --rebasing
> option).
It's for "From " lines, which are the mbox separator. This would be
somewhat different. It has nothing at all to do with the mail format
itself, but rather is about git treating the body of the message
specially. I don't think a quoting mechanism currently exists to handle
this.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 14:20 git-mailinfo doesn't stop parsing at the end of the header Philip Hofstetter
2009-11-18 15:51 ` Jeff King
2009-11-18 16:42 ` Jeff King
2009-11-18 22:45 ` [PATCH] git am/mailinfo: Don't look at in-body headers when rebasing Lukas Sandström
2009-11-18 23:47 ` Philip Hofstetter
2009-11-19 8:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Lukas Sandström
2009-11-19 15:36 ` Jeff King
2009-11-20 16:12 ` [PATCH] " Lukas Sandström
2009-11-18 17:11 ` git-mailinfo doesn't stop parsing at the end of the header Philip Hofstetter
2009-11-18 17:24 ` Jeff King
2009-11-18 17:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-11-18 18:42 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-11-18 19:57 ` Philip Hofstetter
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