Re: Problems with format-patch UTF-8 and a missing second empty line

[Alexey Shumkin <zapped@mail.ru>]

> > 
> > I reproduced this bug with the latest git (v1.7.6.3)
> > It seems to me this is not the "git format-patch" bug
> > but "git am"'s one. (But it is only the supposition)
> 
> Can you be more specific about what you tested? Running Ingo's snippet
> with a more recent git produces:
> 
>   Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=C3=84=C3=96=C3=9C=20=C3=84=C3=96=C3=9C?=
> 
> which is right (and "git am", new or old, will apply it just fine).
> 
> But there may be a different, related bug lurking somewhere.
> 
> -Peff
> 
this is my steps (log from terminal)

$ mkdir git-format-patch
Initialized empty Git repository
in /home/Alex/tmp/git-format-patch/.git/

$ cd git-format-patch

$ echo file content > file

$ git add -vf file
add 'file'

$ git commit -a -m 'коммит: строка-1
> коммит: строка-2'

[master (root-commit) 7ede929] коммит: строка-1 коммит: строка-2
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 file

$ git log
commit 7ede9291cf2d160721bcd8362d8d0f6c6e28cf29
Author: Alexey Shumkin <zapped@mail.ru>
Date:   Thu Sep 15 23:18:26 2011 +0400

    коммит: строка-1
    коммит: строка-2

$ git format-patch --root HEAD
0001-1.patch

$ cat 0001-1.patch 
From 7ede9291cf2d160721bcd8362d8d0f6c6e28cf29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Shumkin <zapped@mail.ru>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:18:26 +0400
Subject: [PATCH]
=?UTF-8?q?=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BC=D0=BC=D0=B8=D1=82:=20=D1=81=D1?=
=?UTF-8?q?=82=D1=80=D0=BE=D0=BA=D0=B0-1=20=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BC=D0=BC=D0=B8=D1?=
=?UTF-8?q?=82:=20=D1=81=D1=82=D1=80=D0=BE=D0=BA=D0=B0-2?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

---
 file |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 file

diff --git a/file b/file
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd59d09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/file
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+file content
-- 
1.7.6.3.4.gf71f

$ git init ../git-format-patch-am
Initialized empty Git repository
in /home/Alex/tmp/git-format-patch-am/.git/

$ cd ../git-format-patch-am

$ git am < ../git-format-patch/0001-1.patch
Applying: коммит: строка-1 коммит: строка-2
applying to an empty history

$ git log
commit 9856238e06d4ca8faeefc48e5c80e8ef7bd34195
Author: Alexey Shumkin <zapped@mail.ru>
Date:   Thu Sep 15 23:18:26 2011 +0400

    коммит: строка-1 коммит: строка-2

$ git --version
git version 1.7.6.3.4.gf71f



But as you said
>>This is by design. Git commit messages are intended to have a
>>single-line subject, followed by a blank line, followed by more
>>elaboration

and solved with "-k" for both "format-patch" and "am" commands