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Re: Broken umlaut in my name, again

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 6, 2009, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20090406192848.GJ20356@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To
<20090406164732.GA11724@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 2009.04.06 12:47:33 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:46:18PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> 
> > On 2009.03.31 17:30:39 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> > > While it makes no sense to map some email address to an empty one, doing
> > > things the other way around can be useful. For example when using
> > > filter-branch with an env-filter that employs a mailmap to fix up an
> > > import that created such broken commits with empty email addresses.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
> > 
> > The umlaut (ö) in my name is broken in the commit that made it into
> > git.git --> 5288dd58356e53d61e2b3804fc7d8d23c3a46ab3
> 
> The mail you sent that presumably became 5288dd58 looks fine (both the
> >From and body are properly marked as iso8859-1), and "git am" applies it
> correctly here. I wonder if Junio did something unusual while applying.

Hm, ok, so I take it that it wasn't me who broke things. Then I'm already happy. I don't care much about my name being messed up, but just wanted to make sure that it wasn't my fault.

Thanks, Björn

Previous: Jeff King
Message 7 of 7 in “Mailmap: Allow empty email addresses to be mapped”
  1. Mailmap: Allow empty email addresses to be mappedBjörn Steinbrink, Mar 31, 2009
  2. Broken umlaut in my name, againBjörn Steinbrink, Apr 6, 2009
  3. Santi BéjarApr 6, 2009
  4. Björn SteinbrinkApr 6, 2009
  5. Santi BéjarApr 6, 2009
  6. Jeff KingApr 6, 2009
  7. Björn SteinbrinkApr 6, 2009

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