Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > I personally think this is a right change. Provided if MTAs on > the path between patch originator and you are not broken and > your MUA saved the message with CR/LF distinction in the > contents intact, this should do more right thing. > > I see broken patches every once in a while, but when they are > mangled by the mailpath, CRLF is the least of the problem; they > have other whitespace breakage that makes them unapplicable > anyway. > > Having said that, however, that historically used to be a big IF > with capital letters. > > > I have a feeling that Linus did this on purpose. For the Heh, I had a trailing CR after the "with capital letters." and one blank line between paragraphs, but I now see two blank lines there. So even in this modern day, preserving CRLF is not something that happens by default -- you would need to make sure that everybody on your mailpath to the recipient is set up the right way. > So I am slightly in favor of the change, but just barely. So now I am less in favor of the change than when I wrote that response. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html