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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid perl in t1300-repo-config
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:19:51 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 6/28/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, is it possible for gmail users to avoid attachments when 
> > sending patches in?
> 
> No. The message text is unpredictably garbled

It is not really unpredictable.

- whitespace at the end of line is stripped
- too long lines are _always_ broken (and our diffstat lines qualify for 
  that)
- empty lines at the end of the message are stripped (does not concern us)
- empty lines at the beginning of the message are stripped (does not 
  concern us either)
- encodings different from UTF-8 are a problem

Of course, the first reason already precludes diffs from being sent. Just 
think of an empty line, which is in both versions (or even worse, a single 
space on the line).

Ciao,
Dscho