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fetchmail (Re: [PATCH] git gc --auto: defer on battery)

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Mar 31, 2008, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.1.00.0803310953030.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:
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> 
> Hm, that's weird. My header shows my name as iso-8859-1, same as the
> body. I checked the copy that I got from the list to eliminate any weird
> local-copy effects.
> 
> From:	=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
> 
> So maybe your MUA is iso-8859-1 challenged instead? I'll send this one
> out as UTF-8.

Ahhah! That's it. Not my MUA, but I'm using fetchmail, and I have copied my .fetchmailrc file around for years. As a result, it has 'mimedecode' set, because pine used to be really bad at this and obviously all my original BK (and later git) email scripts didn't do mime decoding either.

So what is probably happening is that my fetchmail setup dropped the charset information for the header (this is documented by fetchmail, so it's not a bug, it's just part of the rules) and just turned it into the raw byte sequence.

I've turned off mimedecode, can you send another email to me (in private) to see if not doing that just fixes things?

			Linus
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Message 10 of 27 in “git gc --auto: defer on battery”
  1. git gc --auto: defer on batteryMiklos Vajna, Mar 30, 2008
  2. Björn SteinbrinkMar 30, 2008
  3. git gc --auto: defer on batteryMiklos Vajna, Mar 30, 2008
  4. Björn SteinbrinkMar 30, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsMar 30, 2008
  6. Björn SteinbrinkMar 31, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsMar 31, 2008
  9. Björn SteinbrinkMar 31, 2008
  10. fetchmail (Re: [PATCH] git gc --auto: defer on battery)Linus Torvalds, Mar 31, 2008
  11. commit: resurrect "gc --auto" at the endJohannes Schindelin, Apr 2, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinMay 14, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinMay 14, 2008
  15. Holger SchurigMay 15, 2008
  16. 0/4 add pre-auto-gc hook for git-gc --autoMiklos Vajna, Mar 31, 2008
  17. 1/4 git-gc --auto: add pre-auto-gc hookMiklos Vajna, Mar 31, 2008
  18. 2/4 git-gc: add a --no-verify option to bypass the pre-auto-gc hookMiklos Vajna, Mar 31, 2008
  19. 3/4 Documentation/hooks: add pre-auto-gc hookMiklos Vajna, Mar 31, 2008
  20. 4/4 templates: add an example pre-auto-gc hookMiklos Vajna, Mar 31, 2008
  21. Brian GernhardtMar 31, 2008
  22. Joey HessMar 31, 2008
  23. Johannes SchindelinMar 30, 2008
  24. Miklos VajnaMar 30, 2008
  25. Brandon CaseyMar 31, 2008
  26. Miklos VajnaMar 31, 2008
  27. Brandon CaseyMar 31, 2008

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