Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: provide hook to send lines more than 998 symbols

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 21.11.2008 12:58:

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:59:24AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

quoted

By default git-send-email does not accept patch which is contain lines longer
than 998 symbols. Sometime it's inconvenient, i.e. you have a long list in one
variable in shell script. So, define environment variable
GIT_SEND_EMAIL_LONGLINE to something to avoid that restriction.

This already exists as "git send-email --no-validate", which
unfortunately doesn't seem to be documented. Care to send in a
documentation patch instead?

In fact it is documented in git-send-email.txt:

--[no-]validate::
        Perform sanity checks on patches.
        Currently, validation means the following:
+
--
                *       Warn of patches that contain lines longer than
998 characters; this
                        is due to SMTP limits as described by
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
--
+
Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set,
default to '--validate'.


Cheers,
Michael