Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email

On 13/03, Junio C Hamano wrote:

| Samuel Tardieu [off-list ref] writes:
| 
| > Add MIME-Version/Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers in
| > messages generated with git-format-patch. Without it, messages generated
| > without using --attach or --inline didn't have any content type information.
| 
| Isn't that job for send-email (or user's MUA)?  I really do not think we
| want to clutter format-patch output any more than necessary.

Only format-patch knows what encoding has been used by itself to
generate the message. Doing it at any later stage would have to guess
what the correct charset is.