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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>
Cc: Adam Piatyszek <ediap@users•sourceforge.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, gitster@pobox•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: check for lines longer than 998 characters
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:08:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w8fh2ef.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47907914.6000105@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:01:56 +0100")

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net> writes:

> You are right here. My thought was that even though the recipient gets a
> broken patch, he would be able to fix it up. This may be acceptable for
> peer-to-peer communication, but not for a development style that involves
> many recipients.
>
> Then git-format-patch and log-family with --pretty=email -p could warn
> about these candidates-to-be-broken patches.

I'd rather not, unless it is explicitly asked for by a separate
command line option.  Transferring over SMTP is not the only
(nor even primary) use of format-patch output.

On the other hand, git-send-email _is_ all about SMTP transfer.
Perhaps a loop over input files upfront to check the line length
limit, and warn if there are suspiciously long lines even before
sending the first piece of e-mail out, would be a reasonable
approach.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 10:10 [BUG] git send-email brakes patches with very long lines Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-17 13:13 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-17 13:26   ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-17 15:32     ` Jeff King
2008-01-18  7:47       ` [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: check for lines longer than 998 characters Adam Piątyszek
2008-01-18  8:12         ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-18  9:42           ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-18 10:01             ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-18 10:08               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-18 10:37                 ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-18 11:01                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 14:16                 ` Jeff King
2008-01-18 14:19                   ` [PATCH 1/3] send-email: detect invocation errors earlier Jeff King
2008-01-18 14:19                   ` [PATCH 2/3] send-email: validate patches before sending anything Jeff King
2008-01-18 15:09                     ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-18 19:09                       ` Jeff King
2008-01-18 17:39                     ` Jay Soffian
2008-01-18 19:12                       ` Jeff King
2008-01-18 14:20                   ` [PATCH 3/3] send-email: add no-validate option Jeff King
2008-01-18 20:57                   ` [PATCH] git-send-email.perl: check for lines longer than 998 characters Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 21:30                     ` Jeff King
2008-01-20 22:35                     ` Adam Piatyszek
2008-01-20 22:53                       ` Jeff King
2008-01-21 10:21                         ` Adam Piatyszek

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