From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamie@shareable.org (Jamie Lokier) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:05:46 +0000 Subject: Sending UTF-8 patches (was: [PATCH 2/2] Remove now-defunct ts7250 nand driver) In-Reply-To: References: <201001051459.58621.hartleys@visionengravers.com> <1262784693.3181.8034.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20100106180705.GC11773@shareable.org> Message-ID: <20100106230546.GD24250@shareable.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > I guess it's time for a "send-hook" to use a different setting > > specially for Linux mailing lists. > > > > Do you instead mean send the patch in UTF-8 embedded in a mail encoded > > as 8859-1? That sounds quite difficult, if the patch is inline rather > > than attached. > > > > An option to git-am to DTRT sounds infinitely better to me. Shame > > it's not there; unfortunately it doesn't emit enough information to > > make it easy with a wrapper script. > > I think your idea of enhancing git-am is really a good one, and I > certainly encourage you to submit a patch to git. The utility actually > doing the work is git-mailinfo corresponding to builtin-mailinfo.c in > the Git source tree. As I don't work with Git source and don't have enough time, I won't be doing this, but I'd be delighted if someone else took the idea to the Git people. This thread could be used to explain why :-) -- Jamie