Re: [PATCH 01/10] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:24:58AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>> ... Yes.  But actually, the Content-Type header is from
>> git-format-patch:
>> 
>> $ git format-patch --stdout 12806b^..12806b |head
>> From 12806b65b0d1faec249002c51b871775dc344a47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:36:15 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user
>> manual
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Ah, interesting. I had checked that, but my test didn't produce those
> headers. It seems we only produce them if there are non-ascii characters
> in the commit message (and I just checked with an arbitrary commit).
>
> So really, this (totally untested) one-liner should fix it:
>
> diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
> index 922437f..5669c2f 100644
> --- a/commit.c
> +++ b/commit.c
> @@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ unsigned long pretty_print_commit(enum cmit_fmt fmt,
>  			int sz;
>  			char header[512];
>  			const char *header_fmt =
> +				"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
>  				"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=%s\n"
>  				"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
>  			sz = snprintf(header, sizeof(header), header_fmt,
>
>
> Providing that nobody objects to sticking that extra header in
> format-patch's output (but of course only when we actually have
> non-ascii data). It's technically required if we want the output to be a
> valid MIME message, but most things are unlikely to care (except vger's
> apparently picky MTA).

Thanks; I think this is a sane thing to do.


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