format-patch: make cover letters always text/plain

When formatting a series of patches using --attach and --cover-letter,
the cover letter lacks the closing MIME boundary, violating RFC 2046.
Certain clients, such as Thunderbird, discard the message body in such a
case.

Since the cover letter is just one part and sending it as
multipart/mixed is not very useful, always emit it as text/plain,
avoiding the boundary problem altogether.

Reported-by: Patrick Hemmer <git@stormcloud9.net>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
brian m. carlson
2018-05-02 02:20:52 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 468165c1d8
commit 50cd54ef4e
4 changed files with 16 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_stdout,
open_next_file(NULL, rev->numbered_files ? NULL : "cover-letter", rev, quiet))
return;
log_write_email_headers(rev, head, &pp.after_subject, &need_8bit_cte);
log_write_email_headers(rev, head, &pp.after_subject, &need_8bit_cte, 0);
for (i = 0; !need_8bit_cte && i < nr; i++) {
const char *buf = get_commit_buffer(list[i], NULL);