On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:37:08PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > As a curiosity, why is such a check even neccessary? > I'm not an author of that strange check (possible it's somehow related > to b8ebe08b9a643f432866eb7150c3b20d59b755f2) I am the author, and it was a direct response to a user who had something in his mail path munging overly long lines (which are, in fact, disallowed by rfc 2822). Read this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/70847 which contains the problem report and the patches. We could take this one step further (but didn't at the time) by QP-encoding the body part with long lines, which is what a normal MUA would do. Since the receiving tools for git handle this situation, it should work fine. I think such a patch would be welcome. -Peff -- 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
