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From: "Andy Shevchenko" <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:37:08 +0200
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
>> By default git-send-email does not accept patch which is contain lines longer
>> than 998 symbols. Sometime it's inconvenient, i.e. you have a long list in one
>> variable in shell script. So, define environment variable
>> GIT_SEND_EMAIL_LONGLINE to something to avoid that restriction.
>
> As a curiosity, why is such a check even neccessary?
I'm not an author of that strange check (possible it's somehow related
to b8ebe08b9a643f432866eb7150c3b20d59b755f2)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko