From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Allbery Subject: Re: Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:00 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87mxrda6e3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Git Mailing List , "Stefan-W. Hahn" , Lukas =?utf-8?Q?Sandstr=C3=B6m?= , Jeff King , Christian Himpel To: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 19 21:19:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxPPr-0008NR-UY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:19:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753649Ab0ISTTE convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:19:04 -0400 Received: from smtp4.Stanford.EDU ([171.67.219.84]:43135 "EHLO smtp.stanford.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752207Ab0ISTTD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:19:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D53CCAFF; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8D7DC984; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 904802F5AB; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:19:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?IsWgdMSbcMOhbiBOxJtt?= =?utf-8?B?ZWMiJ3M=?= message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:38:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n N=C4=9Bmec writes: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches tha= t >> do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the >> difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable f= or >> the "From: " line). > FWIW, the quoted-printable `From:' encoding has always annoyed me -- = I > replace it manually with my name & address in UTF-8 every time I send > out a patch. What is the reason format-patch does that (and if there = is > a reason not to change the default, could an option to disable it be > provided)? Well, it's required if you're going to actually send the result directl= y as a mail message, since the RFC 5322 format requires headers be encode= d using RFC 2047 encoding. But if you're just attaching the patch to another mail message, it's pointless. --=20 Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)