Re: MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Jay Soffian" [off-list ref] writes:

 > I stuck this in my config and it works-for-me:
 >
 > [format]
 >       headers = \
 > "MIME-Version: 1.0\n\
 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n\
 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

 I suspect that you shouldn't do this.  This would badly interfere both
 with existing format-patch behaviour that adds these MIME-Version and
 Content-Type headers by looking at the contents, and with recent
 format-patch fix 6bf4f1b (format-patch: generate MIME header as needed
 even when there is format.header, 2008-03-14) to make the detection based
 on contents (and presense of format.headers).

Fair enough. But I never send out a patch w/o looking at it in an editor
first so I would've caught that. Thanks for the heads-up though.

j.