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Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 13, 2008, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20080313170016.GA3439@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<1205426419-4594-1-git-send-email-sam@rfc1149.net>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:40:19PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
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> Add MIME-Version/Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers in
> messages generated with git-format-patch. Without it, messages generated
> without using --attach or --inline didn't have any content type information.
> 
> I got hit with this problem yesterday when sending a patch to linux-kernel
> with a commit message containing the name "Pádraig" in it. Moreover,
> the mailing-list software added an incorrect ISO-8859-1 encoding information
> which mangled Pádraig's name.

It's supposed to handle this automatically if the commit message contains non-ascii characters. What version of git were you using?

-Peff
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Message 2 of 25 in “Add MIME information to outgoing email”
  1. Add MIME information to outgoing emailSamuel Tardieu, Mar 13, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMar 13, 2008
  3. Samuel TardieuMar 13, 2008
  4. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  5. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  6. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  7. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  8. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  9. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2008
  11. Re* [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing emailJunio C Hamano, Mar 14, 2008
  12. Jeff KingMar 14, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2008
  14. Samuel TardieuMar 13, 2008
  15. Brian SwetlandMar 14, 2008
  16. Samuel TardieuMar 14, 2008
  17. MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)Teemu Likonen, Mar 25, 2008
  18. Jay SoffianMar 25, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2008
  20. Jay SoffianMar 25, 2008
  21. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  22. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  23. Jeff KingMar 25, 2008
  24. Jay SoffianMar 26, 2008
  25. Jan HudecApr 10, 2008

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