Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that
do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the
difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for
the "From: " line).
FWIW, the quoted-printable `From:' encoding has always annoyed me -- I
replace it manually with my name & address in UTF-8 every time I send
out a patch. What is the reason format-patch does that (and if there is
a reason not to change the default, could an option to disable it be
provided)?
Štěpán
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Štěpán Němec [off-list ref] wrote:
Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that
do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the
difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for
the "From: " line).
FWIW, the quoted-printable `From:' encoding has always annoyed me -- I
replace it manually with my name & address in UTF-8 every time I send
out a patch. What is the reason format-patch does that (and if there is
a reason not to change the default, could an option to disable it be
provided)?
I believe the reason is that RFC 5322 doesn't allow header-fields to
be encoded in other ways that by QP, but I could be wrong.
QP being used even when the "From:"-line is inlined in the message
body seems to be an artefact of the way it's done, and should be
possible to avoid.