From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newline disappears (not sure if Gnus or Emacs fault)
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:58:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppzc5mi3.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.21533.1362562261.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
On Wednesday, March 06 2013, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net> writes:
>
> Hi Sergio,
Hi Tassilo,
>> The problem: Gnus (or Emacs) is eating some newline characters in
>> messages. This happens particularly often with hyperlinks, but
>> yesterday it happened inside an inlined patch in a message.
>
> I'd rather say it's the fault of the email client of the mail's sender
> which probably uses "format=flowed". Have a look at
>
> ,----[ git-format-patch(1) ]
> | By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as
> | flag them as being format=flowed, both of which will make
> | the resulting email unusable by git.
> `----
>
> The same applies not just to Thunderbird, but probably to most graphical
> mail clients in use today. So either the sender should disable that
> somehow, or attach patches as attachment instead of inline.
You are right. The guy is using mutt, but he enabled the format=flowed
in the message. That, and also the fact that he hand-edited the patch,
made it impossible to apply cleanly.
Thanks a lot,
--
Sergio
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 6:04 Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-03-06 9:30 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.21533.1362562261.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2013-03-06 19:58 ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
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