From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Stefan-W. Hahn" <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>,
"Lukas Sandström" <luksan@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Christian Himpel" <chressie@googlemail.com>
Subject: Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header (was Re: git am should recognize >From)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:38:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOa+s-28PYXHhtKr_POu2D33ibfgKDKk4Wqi=9@mail.gmail.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:32:11 +0300")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that
> do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the
> difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for
> 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)?
Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-19 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 14:24 git am should recognize >From Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-19 14:32 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-19 18:01 ` Russ Allbery
2010-09-19 18:38 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2010-09-19 19:19 ` Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header Russ Allbery
2010-09-20 12:20 ` use base64 instead of quoted-printable in format-patch headers (was Re: Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header) Štěpán Němec
2010-09-20 13:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-20 15:29 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 15:55 ` use base64 instead of quoted-printable in format-patch headers Štěpán Němec
2010-09-19 19:44 ` Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header (was Re: git am should recognize >From) Erik Faye-Lund
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