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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: why does git-send-email unwrap headers?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:34:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210602153441.cjmey63x2vudlnk6@nitro.local> (raw)

Hello:

I've noticed that when a message is sent with git-send-email, it will unwrap
all existing headers into a single line, such that:

    Some-header: This is a long header that happens to be longer than 78
     characters and is therefore wrapped at whitespace chars to properly span
     across multiple lines

becomes:

    Some-header: This is a long header that happens to be longer than 78 characters and is therefore wrapped at whitespace chars to properly span across multiple lines

While it's not *wrong* (the 78-character limit is from a very old RFC), I'm
curious if this is intentional or just an oversight.

-K

             reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 15:34 Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2021-06-02 16:53 ` why does git-send-email unwrap headers? Taylor Blau
2021-06-02 18:04   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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