Re: [PATCH] Provide better feedback for the untracked only case in status output

Junio C Hamano writes:
 > Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de> writes:
 > 
 > > Juergen Ruehle writes:
 > >  > [Corrupted patch deleted]
 > >
 > > Will try again when I know what happened.
 > 
 > While you are at it, let me point out one thing that has been
 > annoying me for a while.
 > 
 >  * The message claims to be from git-send-email;
 > 
 >  * Content-Type and CTE are UTF-8 and QP (which is fine);
 > 
 >  * You have in-body From: line; this is not wrong per-se and I
 >    understand why you would want one (your e-mail From: line
 >    uses ASCII approximations "ue" and "ue" and you would want
 >    the resulting commit to spell your name correctly).
 >
 >  * However, this in-body From: line is _doubly_ QP encoded (what
 >    you see above is your name, first RFC 2047 encoded and then
 >    QP encoded).  It shouldn't be.
 > 
 > So, my questions are:
 > 
 >  (1) is this what git-send-email generates and sends out by
 >      default?  If so that means it is a bug in that program that
 >      needs to be fixed.
 > 
 >  (2) if not, are you inserting the in-body From: by hand,
 >      perhaps cut & paste from format-patch output, before
 >      feeding git-send-email (which runs QP on it)?
 > 
 > If the latter, please do not paste the RFC 2047 quoted form.
 > You can spell your name in raw UTF-8 on the in-body From: line
 > just like you did on your Signed-off-by: line.

Yes, this is using git-send-email which sends the mail as 8bit encoded and provides the QP encoded From line. Unfortunately there seems to be a gateway in between that doesn't handle 8bit and QPs the mail again. Perhaps I need some other switches for format-patch and send-email to produce a better result? I'll take another look at the documentation before annoying you again.