On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > I'm surprised it's an issue for you: normally your email client > > would transform quoted-printable and copying would do the right thing > > (i.e. select actual patch contents, without whitespace munging). > > > > Are you trying to copy from the raw message representation? > > Everyone trying to work with a patch (instead of just the email) always > is working with the raw message. Just patch < mbox or git-am mbox > for example.
Well, not everyone obviously as I don't, so please be careful speaking quantifiers. I apply inline patches with `git am -' by piping messages or attachments to the command directly from my e-mail client (with its `Pipe' command), so I don't care how any message or attachment has been encoded for transport as long as the patch hasn't come out damaged once decoded. I'd expect any sane e-mail client to support a similar command if it were to be used for software development the way we do it, though I realise that regrettably some may not be as capable. Maciej