On 2006-11-03 12:44:48 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 03/11/06, Karl Hasselström <kha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Are you sure? Wouldn't it be better to teach StGIT to eat
> > QP-encoded mails, and use 7bit encoding when the patch is all
> > ascii? (And still have an option to force 8bit instead of QP if
> > desired, of course.)
>
> Well, I don't have any strong opinion here, as long as QP is more
> widely available. My impression with Gnus was that it cannot handle
> but I think there was an encoding problem.
Most probably, yes. Not supporting QP would count as a serious
deficiency in an e-mail client.
> The initial mail command implementation was inspired from
> sendpatchset but we should probably now use the email Python package
> and let it handle the encoding and decoding (for import).
Or try to use the git plumbing directly, if reasonable. Mail encoding
and decoding isn't my idea of fun -- I just want it to not break. And
I don't see much point in StGIT replicating core GIT functionality
when there's no reason to.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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