From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:31:16 GMT
Subject: MIME headers in introductory message (git send-email --compose)
Message-ID: <200803252031.17017.tlikonen@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcfaxxxk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano kirjoitti:

> Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Isn't that job for send-email (or user's MUA)?  I really do not think
> we want to clutter format-patch output any more than necessary.

By the way, 'git send-email --compose' does not add MIME headers to 
introductory message. All non-Ascii chars will output something 
undefined in receivers' end.

I guess the right way would be to detect user's charset (locale) and add 
appropriate MIME headers. Also, the Subject field should be encoded if 
it contains non-Ascii characters.