Re: Broken umlaut in my name, again

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

2009/4/6 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
> On 2009.04.06 14:46:43 +0200, Santi Béjar wrote:
>> 2009/4/6 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:
>> > On 2009.03.31 17:30:39 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
>> >> While it makes no sense to map some email address to an empty one, doing
>> >> things the other way around can be useful. For example when using
>> >> filter-branch with an env-filter that employs a mailmap to fix up an
>> >> import that created such broken commits with empty email addresses.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
>> >
>> > The umlaut (ö) in my name is broken in the commit that made it into
>> > git.git --> 5288dd58356e53d61e2b3804fc7d8d23c3a46ab3
>> >
>> > Last time this happened when I used format-patch -s instead of commit -s
>> > IIRC. But since then, I pay attention to do the sign-off via commit -s,
>> > yet my name is broken again. What did I do wrong this time?
>>
>> I don't see nothing wrong in your mails. It appears to be a double
>> conversion to UTF-8 between the mail and the commit.
>>
>> But I always use format-patch -s without problems, what was your
>> problem with format-patch?
>
> I don't recall the exact problem, and I can't find the mails anymore,
> the IIRC it was something about Content-type being generated from the
> original commit message, and only afterwards the sign-off line got
> added, or something like that. That causes the Content-type to say
> ascii, although the sign-off had UTF-8 in it. Or something like that.
> Might very well have been fixed since then

Yes, it is fixed (at least what you described).

> (it was almost 2 years ago
> that I hit that bug IIRC),

Uf! half an eternity in git scale ;-)

Santi