From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stupid quoting...
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:58:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85myypef7p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzm2ptw04.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun\, 24 Jun 2007 04\:47\:07 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> If I were to create a patch between two versions of such a file, the
> diff header would show the pathname encoded in one, and the changed
> contents would ben shown in another. As long as you treat "git
> diff" output as binary blob, that would work just fine, but when you
> have to transmit such a diff in e-mail as an in-line patch, you
> would have troubles.
ASCII-armoring of what amounts to binary files is the task of the mail
software. Also working with encodings. Escaping characters in the
diff headers but not in the file contents is not going to achieve
anything useful, anyway.
With the proper mailing software, you can get your diff across the
line in a manner where the other side can make use of it. This is not
the case for unarmored mail with ^ escapes in them, since the
receiving side can't distinguish them from "real" ^ characters.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-24 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 11:30 Stupid quoting David Kastrup
2007-06-13 12:06 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-13 12:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86ejkgvxmb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 0:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-14 7:06 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <86hcpb6lr6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 8:51 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-14 1:06 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 1:19 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-16 21:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-18 8:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 16:19 ` Jeff King
2007-06-19 1:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 9:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 20:53 ` Olivier Galibert
[not found] ` <86645kutow.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-20 2:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-20 6:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-20 7:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 8:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-20 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 6:50 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 11:14 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 11:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 11:58 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-24 12:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 12:41 ` Jeff King
2007-06-24 16:25 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 19:39 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 20:17 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 20:25 ` David Kastrup
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