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| author | brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> | 2018-07-08 22:17:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-09 10:55:12 -0700 |
| commit | 7a36987ffffa59052723ed7299c1de25bc18048a (patch) | |
| tree | 0973270e42b7ede4c0bec91fe383b9a09109bb95 /Documentation/git-send-email.txt | |
| parent | 53f9a3e157dbbc901a02ac2c73346d375e24978c (diff) | |
| download | git-7a36987ffffa59052723ed7299c1de25bc18048a.tar.gz | |
send-email: add an auto option for transfer encoding
For most patches, using a transfer encoding of 8bit provides good
compatibility with most servers and makes it as easy as possible to view
patches. However, there are some patches for which 8bit is not a valid
encoding: RFC 5322 specifies that a message must not have lines
exceeding 998 octets.
Add a transfer encoding value, auto, which indicates that a patch should
use 8bit where allowed and quoted-printable otherwise. Choose
quoted-printable instead of base64, since base64-encoded plain text is
treated as suspicious by some spam filters.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-send-email.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 4f3efde80c..385c7de9e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -137,15 +137,18 @@ 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, git will use 8bit and not add a +Content-Transfer-Encoding header. --xmailer:: --no-xmailer:: |