From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20080313170016.GA3439@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1205426419-4594-1-git-send-email-sam@rfc1149.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Samuel Tardieu X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 13 18:01:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZqna-0001K6-1V for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:00:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752757AbYCMRAT convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752402AbYCMRAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:19 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:2614 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814AbYCMRAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:18 -0400 Received: (qmail 15561 invoked by uid 111); 13 Mar 2008 17:00:17 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:17 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:00:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1205426419-4594-1-git-send-email-sam@rfc1149.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 genera= ted > without using --attach or --inline didn't have any content type infor= mation. >=20 > I got hit with this problem yesterday when sending a patch to linux-k= ernel > with a commit message containing the name "P=C3=A1draig" in it. Moreo= ver, > the mailing-list software added an incorrect ISO-8859-1 encoding info= rmation > which mangled P=C3=A1draig'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