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    mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding · 5b38456e
    Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    Without the "-k" option, mailinfo will convert a folded
    subject header like:
    
      Subject: this is a
        subject that doesn't
        fit on one line
    
    into a single line. With "-k", however, we assumed that
    these newlines were significant and represented something
    that the sending side would want us to preserve.
    
    For messages created by format-patch, this assumption was
    broken by a1f6baa5
    
     (format-patch: wrap long header lines,
    2011-02-23).  For messages sent by arbitrary MUAs, this was
    probably never a good assumption to make, as they may have
    been folding subjects in accordance with rfc822's line
    length recommendations all along.
    
    This patch now joins folded lines with a single whitespace
    character. This treats header folding purely as a syntactic
    feature of the transport mechanism, not as something that
    format-patch is trying to tell us about the original
    subject.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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