Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make generated MSVC solution file open from Windows Explorer

[Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>]

2009/9/26 Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:05, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>
>> Odd.  If I copy and paste from Thunderbird, its fine.  But if I
>> save the body out as an attachment from mutt, it fails.
>>
>> I wonder if it has to do with the From header appearing in the top
>> of the body; this header has to be escaped with a leading space in
>> mbox format.  It looks like Thunderbird might be doing some magic to
>> remove that leading space from the context lines, while mutt isn't.

FYI: the Thunderbird version included this header:
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

The format=flowed part shows that Thunderbird is reformatting
whitespace. You can disable that:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_-_Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email

'flowed' is a lossy transformation of text, so git won't attempt to
fix patches that have  been mangled that way. There's a longer
explanation from Junio here:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/2/15/867294

Hope this helps,
Baz

>>
>> Next time, don't include the first From line?
>
> Will try. So what about these two patches? Should I re-send them with
> the first "From" stripped?
>
> Or will *.patch files that are attached to emails, instead of sending
> the patch inline, be accepted?
>
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> Sebastian Schuberth
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