mailinfo: always clean up rfc822 header folding

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 a1f6baa (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: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/mailinfo.c b/builtin/mailinfo.c
index 71e6262a87d883a4a82953db5f742bccf99e5c77..bfb32b7233850a68bdc226038a9c0f973037499b 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/mailinfo.c
+++ b/builtin/mailinfo.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static int read_one_header_line(struct strbuf *line, FILE *in)
                        break;
                if (strbuf_getline(&continuation, in, '\n'))
                        break;
-               continuation.buf[0] = '\n';
+               continuation.buf[0] = ' ';
                strbuf_rtrim(&continuation);
                strbuf_addbuf(line, &continuation);
        }

diff --git a/t/t4152-am-subjects.sh b/t/t4152-am-subjects.sh
index 7222c06b803bec2b609e00cb9c75b250ec7867a4..37e5c0361ca84b52d07893e8026410a18b50f356 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t4152-am-subjects.sh
+++ b/t/t4152-am-subjects.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ test_expect_success 'long subject preserved (format-patch | am)' '
 test_expect_success 'long subject preserved (format-patch -k | am)' '
        check_subject long-k
 '
-test_expect_failure 'long subject preserved (format-patch -k | am -k)' '
+test_expect_success 'long subject preserved (format-patch -k | am -k)' '
        check_subject long-k -k
 '