Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Users have mistakenly copied "From " lines into commit messages > in the past, and will certainly make the same mistakes in the > future. Since not everyone uses mboxrd, yet, we should at least > prevent miss-split mails by always escaping "From " lines based > on the check used by mailsplit. > > mailsplit will not perform unescaping by default, yet, as it > could cause further invocations of format-patch from old > versions of git to generate bad output. Propagating the mboxo > escaping is preferable to miss-split patches. Unescaping may > still be performed via "--mboxrd". As a tool to produce mbox file, quoting like this in format-patch output may make sense, I would think, but shouldn't send-email undo this when sending individual patches? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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