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authorJonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>2016-10-21 10:55:03 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-10-21 11:48:35 -0700
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trailer: support values folded to multiple lines
Currently, interpret-trailers requires that a trailer be only on 1 line. For example: a: first line second line would be interpreted as one trailer line followed by one non-trailer line. Make interpret-trailers support RFC 822-style folding, treating those lines as one logical trailer. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ minus signs start the patch part of the message.
When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the
token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces
-inside the token and the value.
+inside the token and the value. The value may be split over multiple lines with
+each subsequent line starting with whitespace, like the "folding" in RFC 822.
Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many
-rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow the line
-folding rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules.
+rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow
+the encoding rules and probably many other rules.
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