On 12/04/19 05:31, Nate DeSimone wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have been dealing with a very frustrating issue recently where all of my > "CR LF" line endings get erroneously converted into "LF LF" once I send my > patch to the mailing list. I have discovered the root cause for this problem. > The issue is the following commit to git itself: > > https://github.com/git/git/commit/5983ddc165221c3ec2a4299b65cfb2ecc1ce7765 > > This change is present in git version 2.20.0 or later, per the release notes: > > https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.22.0/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt > > With this change, if you leave sendemail.transferEncoding set to the default > value of "auto", then git will inspect the body of your email. If it finds a > '\r' character in the message, then it converts the entire message content > into Quoted-Printable encoding. It appears that when groups.io converts the > QP encoding back to text format, the '\r' characters somehow become '\n'. To > workaround this make sure to set the following configuration option: > > git config --global sendemail.transferEncoding 8bit > > This will prevent send-email from converting the message into QP encoding, > allowing the patches to pass through to the mailing list unharmed. Hope that > saves other people a few hours of frustration.
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