From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:00:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MIME information to outgoing email
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:

> 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