Jeremy White wrote: > So it seems as though every month or so, some id10t is bit by > the Thunderbird bug where it mangles perfectly reasonable looking > git-format-patch drafts. > > This month, I won the prize! :-) > > I had always habitually done --attach, because that's what GitWine says to do. > But after scratching my head, reading man pages, and > checking my drafts, I decided that was lame; inline is always nicer, and > I dropped the --attach. Big mistake; the draft may look okay, but the end > result > is mangled somehow. > > Thanks to Dmitry for alerting me. > > I've filed a bug with Mozilla over this: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435020 > > My sense is that its a subtle bug of some kind; I've had a hard > time articulating a strategy to reproduce it (which, by Occam's > razor, immediately suggests I'm just missing something :-/). > > So if others are bit by this and can share any clues or tips > for the Mozilla devs on how to reproduce it, I'd appreciate it. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy >
It's a known issue with Thunderbird and git. you need to set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed = false and mailnews.wraplength = 0 Cheers Boaz
