2026-02-07 05:23 UTC
@RandamuMaki @zekjur The right solution would be for git format-patch and git am to use MIME multipart/mixed and deterministically and unambiguously separate the patch from the commit message. They're already generating an mbox format as it is.
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-07 08:05
@taylor An amusing thing is that there is undoubtedly a whole segment of the readership here that has already remembered the days when the multitude of "mbox" mailbox formats caused bodies to be interpreted as headers in much the same way as patch is interpreting human-readable messages as patching instructions. And that has remembered Bernstein on the subject of parsing and quoting, too. @RandamuMaki @zekjur #patch #DanielJBernstein #security #git