Subject: Re: missing handling of "No newline at end of file" in git am

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:06:39 +0000

Olaf Hering <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > How would I debug it?
> 
> One line is supposed to be longer than 998 chars, but something along
> the way truncated it and corrupted the patch.

998 sounds like the SMTP limit.

Perhaps git format-patch should emit binary diffs in that case?
I doubt any human would bother reading excessively long lines as
text...