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Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

> 
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > | Oops, I'm afraid automatic-I replied "y" to the git-send-email question
> > | "Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?"
> > | (happened before with the In-Reply-To questions ;-(
> >
> > Would it be possible to reject obviously wrong replies ("y", "yes", "n",
"no")
> > to the 8bit encoding and In-Reply-To questions?
> 
> There is no canned configuration to do so, if that is what you are
> asking.
> 
> It would be possible to do so with code changes to git-send-email;
> look for "ask(", "valid_re", and "confirm_only" to see how they are
> used in existing code that ask questions, if you are interested.

Today I stumbled on exactly this; a colleague had probably typed "yes" when
inappropriate, and the email I received from git-send-email had:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=yes

then "git am" complained.