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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-25 15:10:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-07-25 15:10:48 -0700 |
| commit | 1ff0338e53a8f0c62e5a9370e770e20058c5ad1e (patch) | |
| tree | 9b5a44f63a218ee1599ee31b3038aab5ba8545ca /git-send-email.txt | |
| parent | ea1ac8d6d6d8856d448e1f6e2d941f7663dc9ecd (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-1ff0338e53a8f0c62e5a9370e770e20058c5ad1e.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.18.0-321-gffc6fa
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diff --git a/git-send-email.txt b/git-send-email.txt index 4f3efde80..465a4ecbe 100644 --- a/git-send-email.txt +++ b/git-send-email.txt @@ -137,15 +137,17 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding. Specify encoding of compose message. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.composeencoding'; if that is unspecified, UTF-8 is assumed. ---transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64):: +--transfer-encoding=(7bit|8bit|quoted-printable|base64|auto):: Specify the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP. 7bit will fail upon encountering a non-ASCII message. quoted-printable can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much harder to inspect manually. base64 is even more fool proof, but also - even more opaque. Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` - configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not - add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header. + even more opaque. auto will use 8bit when possible, and quoted-printable + otherwise. ++ +Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding` configuration +value; if that is unspecified, default to `auto`. --xmailer:: --no-xmailer:: @@ -398,8 +400,11 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. + -- * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]). - * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this - is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt. + * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than + 998 characters unless a suitable transfer encoding + ('auto', 'base64', or 'quoted-printable') is used; + this is due to SMTP limits as described by + http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt. -- + Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set, |