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Subject: Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
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"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/18/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

>> Thus the file extension has no impact on how the mail client should
>> treat it.
>
> He will attach it. It's typical for outlook users.

If that is the case, I highly suspect that it is one more reason
not to mark the file with .txt; Outlook may say "Hey, it's TEXT,
so let's linewrap it, quote-balance it and add all sorts of nice
frills to make it easier to read for human consumption".  

Assuming that it does not understand what a .patch is, we would
have a better chance to force it not to look at nor touch the
contents, and not getting our patches corrupted.