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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-25 00:50:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-25 00:50:47 +0300 |
| commit | 7633ff48ed3ee942cb9c1d233b41ef3a2676cb8a (patch) | |
| tree | 3b602809cdc176ce0ee083dd0df399e1c47ab48e /Documentation | |
| parent | c9be7d2cd8787a425a55bb0378a6b7de6cd844ad (diff) | |
| parent | fa29f36d990df8cd42f323847245ab2ae0f0ae62 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'bc/send-email-auto-cte'
The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends
out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an
overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to
automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line
in the payload has been introduced and is made the default.
* bc/send-email-auto-cte:
docs: correct RFC specifying email line length
send-email: automatically determine transfer-encoding
send-email: accept long lines with suitable transfer encoding
send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 4f3efde80c..465a4ecbed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -137,15 +137,17 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding. Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed. ---transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64):: +--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto):: Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP. 7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message. quoted-printable can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much harder to inspect manually. base64 is even more fool proof, but also - even more opaque. Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` - configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not - add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header. + even more opaque. auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable + otherwise. ++ +Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` configuration +value; if that is unspecified, default to `auto`. --xmailer:: --no-xmailer:: @@ -398,8 +400,11 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. + -- * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]). - * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this - is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt. + * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than + 998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding + ('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used; + this is due to SMTP limits as described by + http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt. -- + Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set, |