From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:21:29 -0800 Message-ID: <7vslh0bwsm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20061101090046.1107.81105.stgit@localhost> <20061102113631.GA30507@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20061103095859.GC16721@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20061103100142.GD16721@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> <20061103102119.GO20017@pasky.or.cz> <454B1BC3.1070203@op5.se> <20061103105349.GA18651@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Petr Baudis , Catalin Marinas , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20061103105349.GA18651@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m's?= message of "Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:53:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfx79-0005rX-1j for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:21:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753227AbWKCLVc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:21:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753229AbWKCLVc (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:21:32 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao04.cox.net ([68.230.241.35]:50611 "EHLO fed1rmmtao04.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753227AbWKCLVb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:21:31 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061103112130.RYXW22409.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:21:30 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id iBMa1V0091kojtg0000000 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:21:35 -0500 To: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Karl Hasselstr=F6m writes: > One thing is certain, though: When I sent 8bit-encoded patches from > StGIT to this list, the vger mail server added headers saying that it > didn't like 8bit, and had re-encoded the mail (to what, I don't recal= l > just now). It warned that in doing so, it had to make assumptions > about the charset used. The assumption it had made was that the text > was latin1, which is not so good when it is in fact utf8. > > This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great > legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes. I wonder if this can be solved by simply reusing the machinery format-patch already has. If calling it as a standalone script does more unnecessary things than what StGIT wants, we should certainly be able to separate the only necessary part out to suit StGIT's needs.