Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header (was Re: git am should recognize >From)

From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2010, 18:38 UTC
Message-ID: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOa+s-28PYXHhtKr_POu2D33ibfgKDKk4Wqi=9@mail.gmail.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that
> do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the
> difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for
> the "From: " line).

FWIW, the quoted-printable `From:' encoding has always annoyed me -- I replace it manually with my name & address in UTF-8 every time I send out a patch. What is the reason format-patch does that (and if there is a reason not to change the default, could an option to disable it be provided)?

Štěpán