From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Bucksch Subject: Re: Thunderbird and patches (was Re: [PATCH v2] Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:09:41 +0100 Organization: Beonex Message-ID: <49907F75.2050100@beonex.com> References: <498E50E2.8050309@codeweavers.com> <200902072310.12764.bss@iguanasuicide.net> <498F01C2.5080105@codeweavers.com> <499022D3.3000200@drmicha.warpmail.net> <49902EDC.6020901@beonex.com> <49903521.1060101@codeweavers.com> <49903B27.8070608@beonex.com> <49904DE7.2080205@codeweavers.com> <4990519C.8060601@drmicha.warpmail.net> <499058B4.4070009@beonex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael J Gruber , Jeremy White , Johannes Schindelin , "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." , git@vger.kernel.org To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 09 20:12:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWbXr-0005qY-Qw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:11:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752958AbZBITK0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:10:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752637AbZBITKZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:10:25 -0500 Received: from mail.server.beonex.com ([78.46.195.11]:55990 "EHLO mail.server.beonex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752491AbZBITKY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:10:24 -0500 Received: from [10.1.1.3] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.server.beonex.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C997303C560; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:10:30 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20081217 Shredder/3.0b2pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote: > I will follow up with an example patch which has the control characters in > it. > I can only advise against sending patches in the bodies, sorry. Bodies are for human-language text. Attachments are for files like diffs, and are preserved. Attachments with "Content-Disposition: inline" are for attachments which are supposed to be read directly in the email reader, like is the case here. I guess that other, console-based email software won't deal with inline attachments as nicely, but the major email clients do. Instead of trying to do something that's going to be fruitless - email bodies are never going to be character-to-character identical, because there are many demands on formatting (up to graphical smiles) and from many different languages (charsets, like seems to be the problem here) on it by users -, I think your better route for success would be to use inline attachments and fix the software which can't deal with *that* properly, including display and quoting. Sorry to brush you off, but I this is a battle we can't win, either way. Too many demands from too many sides. Ben