Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] Rename push.default to push.mode

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 30.03.2009 15:45:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:06:00PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>>> I don't see the quoted-printable characters, I see them in utf-8 and 8bit.
>>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>>
>>> Maybe some server in between is recoding it.
>>
>> That's weird. I read through gmane/nntp, but others' posts are fine.
>> Yours have
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
> 
> If a subscriber's mailserver does not support the 8BITMIME SMTP
> extension, then vger will (correctly) encode an 8bit message as QP.
> Gmane's mailservers do not seem to support 8BITMIME.
> 
> You see it only with Santi's message because most messages are already
> 7bit clean; however, the accent in his name requires git to mark it as
> 8-bit.

Thanks for the explanation! I rechecked, and for sure it also happened
with patches from Tor Arne Vestbø and Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy.
Again I feel blessed by my umlautlessness... and challenged by gmane.
About time to ditch it for reading patches also, or at least to be aware
of it when saving patches.

Michael