From: Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] mail: Use space rather than tab for long header folding
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:09:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8197bcb1002120809q5eb458f7pa9e9b0562af6bcda@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100212153905.11578.83879.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> The default Python implementation (at least 2.5 and earlier) fold long
> e-mail header lines by inserting "\n\t". This causes issues with some
> e-mail clients that remove both "\n\t". The RFC2822 shows that folding
> should be done with "\n ". The Python workaround is to use a Header
> object instead of a string when setting the message headers.
Aha. If this works like I think it does, it'll eliminate the problem
where patches with long subject lines pick up tab characters when
imported from e-mails. But that's not the motivation you're
describing, is it?
--
Karl Wiberg, kha@treskal.com
subrabbit.wordpress.com
www.treskal.com/kalle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 16:09 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-12 15:39 [StGit PATCH] mail: Use space rather than tab for long header folding Catalin Marinas
2010-02-12 16:09 ` Karl Wiberg [this message]
2010-02-12 16:15 ` Catalin Marinas
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