On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:52 AM Andreas Grünbacher
> <andreas.gruenbacher@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,

	tglx