Issue 689: patch mangled by mail agent - Darcs bug tracker

Title	patch mangled by mail agent
Priority	bug	Status	duplicate
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder	Darcs needs real MIME parsing, fails with Mail.app, Courier View: 26	Nosy List	darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, markstos, thorkilnaur, tommy, zooko
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2008-02-14.04:11:49 by zooko, last changed 2010-03-10.15:09:48 by kowey.

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Messages
msg3388 (view)	Author: zooko	Date: 2008-02-14.04:11:48
Here's an example of the problem of darcs patches being mangled by mail agents. This patch: http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2008-February/007357.html I wanted to apply, so I told my Mail User Agent, the Macintosh "Mail.app" program to "Save As". The resulting file is attached as exhibit A. When I tried to apply this file, I got: ------- darcs failed: Patch bundle failed hash! This probably means that the patch has been corrupted by a mailer. The most likely culprit is CRLF newlines. ------- Then I did "Select All" and copied and pasted into a file attached as exhibit B. When I darcs applied exhibit B it worked. I just thought this example might help, since I saw some comments recently expressing uncertainty about what sort of mail mangling was happening in practice. Regards, Zooko exhibit_A: Attachments exhibit_A exhibit_B unnamed
msg3391 (view)	Author: markstos	Date: 2008-02-14.04:17:08
Zooko, This report is a duplicate of one already filed: "Darcs needs real MIME parsing, fails with Mail.app, Courier" http://bugs.darcs.net/issue26

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-14 04:11:49	zooko	create
2008-02-14 04:15:02	markstos	link	issue690 superseder
2008-02-14 04:17:09	markstos	set	priority: bug status: unread -> duplicate messages: + msg3391 nosy: + markstos
2009-08-06 17:54:32	admin	set	nosy: + jast, Serware, dmitry.kurochkin, darcs-devel, dagit, mornfall, simon, thorkilnaur, - droundy
2009-08-06 20:58:13	admin	set	nosy: - beschmi
2009-08-10 22:15:22	admin	set	nosy: - darcs-devel, jast, dagit, Serware, mornfall
2009-08-25 18:05:48	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-27 13:55:12	admin	set	nosy: tommy, kowey, markstos, darcs-devel, zooko, thorkilnaur, dmitry.kurochkin
2010-03-10 15:09:48	kowey	set	superseder: + Darcs needs real MIME parsing, fails with Mail.app, Courier