From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:21:29 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending Message-ID: <7vslh0bwsm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20061103105349.GA18651@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Karl Hasselström writes: > One thing is certain, though: When I sent 8bit-encoded patches from > StGIT to this list, the vger mail server added headers saying that it > didn't like 8bit, and had re-encoded the mail (to what, I don't recall > just now). It warned that in doing so, it had to make assumptions > about the charset used. The assumption it had made was that the text > was latin1, which is not so good when it is in fact utf8. > > This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great > legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes. I wonder if this can be solved by simply reusing the machinery format-patch already has. If calling it as a standalone script does more unnecessary things than what StGIT wants, we should certainly be able to separate the only necessary part out to suit StGIT's needs.