On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:12:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com> writes:
> > After a bit of investigation, it seems that patch attachments (like
> > yours) with a Context-Type of "text/x-diff" download through Gmail in
> > CRLF format for me (I'm running a browser on Windows, but my Postgres
> > development environment is in a Linux VM). So those must get converted
> > from Unix to CRLF format if downloaded using a browser running on
> > Windows.
> > The majority of patch attachments (?) seem to have a Context-Type of
> > "application/octet-stream" or "text/x-patch", and these seem to
> > download raw (in their original Unix format).
>
> Interesting. I can probably adjust my MUA to send "text/x-patch",
> but I'll have to look around to see where that's determined.
> (I dislike using "application/octet-stream" for this, because
> the archives won't show that as text, they only let you download
> the attachment. Maybe that's more Safari's fault than the
> archives per se, not sure.)
I would be interesting to know if "text/x-patch" is better than
"text/x-diff" --- I currently use the later.
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