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

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2010, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimivpZPJo-3OoFQ2OVqzO_8_RMEfUwjamScds7_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y6axshmt.fsf_-_@gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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)?
>

I believe the reason is that RFC 5322 doesn't allow header-fields to be encoded in other ways that by QP, but I could be wrong.

QP being used even when the "From:"-line is inlined in the message body seems to be an artefact of the way it's done, and should be possible to avoid.