From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:19:16 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I make git-format-patch reject 8-bit encodings?
Message-ID: <7vbp24hqez.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D62E315.7040506@freescale.com>

Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> writes:

> Is there any way to get git-format-patch to refuse to create a patch that has
> 8-bit characters in it?  That is, if a given commit somehow has an 8-bit
> character (e.g. utf-encoded), then I want git-format-patch to refuse to create a
> patch for that commit.
>
> Also, how can I do the same thing with git-send-email?  That is, if the patch
> requires an 8-bit encoding, how do I get it to refuse to send the patch?

Feels like an X-Y problem, but wouldn't it be an option to let
format-patch write into individual files, check these files and reject
ones that are not 8-bit clean, and then send the result out via
send-email?  You should be proofreading the format-patch output to catch
and fix typos before hading them to send-email anyway, so the above would
be the natural thing to do.