From: Michael S. Tsirkin Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:18 GMT Subject: [PATCH] git-send-email: fix handling of special characters Message-ID: <20130523135418.GA20741@redhat.com> When patch sender's name has special characters, git send-email did not quote it before matching against the author name. As a result it would produce mail like this: Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:36:00 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: [PATCH 0/9] virtio: switch to linux headers Message-Id: <1369316169-20181-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Fix by sanitizing before matching to patch author name. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- git-send-email.perl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index bd13cc8..c4dc438 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1400,7 +1400,8 @@ foreach my $t (@files) { $subject = quote_subject($subject, $auto_8bit_encoding); } - if (defined $author and $author ne $sender) { + my $sanitized_sender = sanitize_address($sender); + if (defined $author and $author ne $sanitized_sender) { $message = "From: $author\n\n$message"; if (defined $author_encoding) { if ($has_content_type) { -- MST