On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:52 AM Andreas Grünbacher
> <andreas.gruenbac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Quilt uses those Content-Disposition headers to preserve the patch
> > filenames;
>
> That' what I was assuming, but does anybody really care?
People might have scripts using it but I doubt anyone still relies on that
because git mail never did that inline/filename dance so scripts which
convert mboxes to quilt need to have a mechanism to create filenames
anyway. My personal script uses the subject line to create the filenames
and I never tried to use the inline filename as those filenames are often
enough complete garbage.
> (Even if they use quilt to manage patches, maybe they don't _send_
> them that way?)
Many quilt users still do.
> How long has quilt been doing it?
Forever.
> Also, note that I'm not at all sure that it's _just_ the
>
> Content-Disposition: inline
>
> that triggers this. There might be something else in those emails that
> triggers it but that's the thing that stands out.
It is. There is nothing else in the headers which could cause that. quilt
mail format is pretty simplistic.
> > I'm not sure whose workflows would break if we kill those headers
> > altogether, but maybe we can omit them by default.
>
> That would be lovely at least for my case.
No objections.
Thanks,
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