Re: Broken umlaut in my name, again

From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Apr 6, 2009, 12:46 UTC
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0904060546j6c2fbba9r75829f2bd383458b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090406114618.GF20356@atjola.homenet>

2009/4/6 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>:

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> On 2009.03.31 17:30:39 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
>> While it makes no sense to map some email address to an empty one, doing
>> things the other way around can be useful. For example when using
>> filter-branch with an env-filter that employs a mailmap to fix up an
>> import that created such broken commits with empty email addresses.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
>
> The umlaut (ö) in my name is broken in the commit that made it into
> git.git --> 5288dd58356e53d61e2b3804fc7d8d23c3a46ab3
>
> Last time this happened when I used format-patch -s instead of commit -s
> IIRC. But since then, I pay attention to do the sign-off via commit -s,
> yet my name is broken again. What did I do wrong this time?

I don't see nothing wrong in your mails. It appears to be a double conversion to UTF-8 between the mail and the commit.

But I always use format-patch -s without problems, what was your problem with format-patch?

Santi