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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

  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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