Gavin,
Thanks for working with me on this, I can verify the patch was
attached with the correct mime-type. Unfortunately, you've *also* run
across the "tigris mailing list software is broken with attachments"
bug, and your mail has been repeated twice below (but the attachment
is still included, oddly enough). Copying jackr to let me know about
it.
-Hyrum
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Gavin Baumanis wrote:
> Hi Hyrum,
>
> I'm obviously doing something incorrectly... but not too sure what
> that is.
>
> The file *is* plain text;
> created with;
>
> svn diff www/hacking.html > hacking.html.diff
>
> The file opens correctly on my Mac.
> Whether I use VI or (Mac's) TextEdit.app application.
>
> And while assumption *IS* the mother of of stuff-ups - I have
> associated both of those file extensions with TextEdit.app and thusly
> assumed that specifying .patch or .diff would be sufficient to ensure
> the correct MIME type was applied to the attachment.
>
> Anyway, here it is again - with a TXT extension.
> In a an email to myself, the header reads;
>
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=hacking.html.txt
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> x-unix-mode=0644;
> name="hacking.html.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Hopefully this is sufficient - otherwise I might need some help from a
> MAC savvy list member.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1721547
> <hacking.html.txt>Hi Hyrum,
>
> I'm obviously doing something incorrectly... but not too sure what
> that is.
>
> The file *is* plain text;
> created with;
>
> svn diff www/hacking.html > hacking.html.diff
>
> The file opens correctly on my Mac.
> Whether I use VI or (Mac's) TextEdit.app application.
>
> And while assumption *IS* the mother of of stuff-ups - I have
> associated both of those file extensions with TextEdit.app and thusly
> assumed that specifying .patch or .diff would be sufficient to ensure
> the correct MIME type was applied to the attachment.
>
> Anyway, here it is again - with a TXT extension.
> In a an email to myself, the header reads;
>
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=hacking.html.txt
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> x-unix-mode=0644;
> name="hacking.html.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Hopefully this is sufficient - otherwise I might need some help from a
> MAC savvy list member.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1721547
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http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1726546
Received on 2009-04-15 14:29:26 CEST