Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> This just makes me wonder if there is a practical reason why people
> would not want this always enabled. I just looked at output from
>
> $ git log --grep='>>*From '
Missing '^' ?
Auto-unescaping in mailsplit might throw off people on older
versions of git if reserialized as mail, though.
Maybe in a few years, we can consider it.
Auto-escaping on the other hand, I think we start doing in
--pretty=email by default soon/today. At least for lines
matching the stricter is_from_line() check from mailsplit.
> in the kernel repository, and I saw no cases where the committer
> really wanted to preserve the leading one or more '>' on that line.
> No, I didn't go through all of 150+ such commits, but I did check
> the couple dozen of them from the recent history.
>
> Our history also have 5 instances of them, none of which should have
> had the leading '>' if the committer were careful.
Right, but I'm actually more worried about unescaped /^From /
breaking further attempts to split.
git log --grep='^From .*:.*:.* .*'
...finds 45 commits in Linux 4.6.1 which might cause incorrect
splits. We have 5 of those ourselves.
Technically it is backwards-incompatible, but I would rather
leave an extra '>' in the commit than break a split.
> > +>From the beginning, mbox should have been mboxrd
>
> Indeed ;-)
Yes, I'm really wishing we did this 11 years ago :)
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