On Wednesday, March 06 2013, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Sergio Durigan Junior <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
