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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313170016.GA3439@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205426419-4594-1-git-send-email-sam@rfc1149.net>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> Add MIME-Version/Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers in
> messages generated with git-format-patch. Without it, messages generated
> without using --attach or --inline didn't have any content type information.
> 
> I got hit with this problem yesterday when sending a patch to linux-kernel
> with a commit message containing the name "Pádraig" in it. Moreover,
> the mailing-list software added an incorrect ISO-8859-1 encoding information
> which mangled Pádraig's name.

It's supposed to handle this automatically if the commit message
contains non-ascii characters. What version of git were you using?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-13 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-13 16:40 [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-13 17:00 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-03-13 17:14   ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-14 13:29     ` Jeff King
2008-03-14 13:40       ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-14 13:46         ` Jeff King
2008-03-14 13:50           ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-14 14:35             ` Jeff King
2008-03-14 14:40               ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-14 16:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-14 20:21     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2008-03-14 21:27       ` Jeff King
2008-03-13 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-13 19:05   ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-14 11:21     ` Brian Swetland
2008-03-14 11:57       ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-25 18:31   ` MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose) Teemu Likonen
2008-03-25 19:17     ` Jay Soffian
2008-03-25 20:47       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-25 20:59         ` Jay Soffian
2008-03-25 21:56         ` Jeff King
2008-03-25 22:07           ` Jeff King
2008-03-25 23:06     ` Jeff King
2008-03-26  2:46       ` Jay Soffian
2008-04-10 18:47       ` Jan Hudec

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