# Torsten Bögershausen

GitHub: https://github.com/tboegi
Addresses: tboegi@web.de
Messages: 1943. Patches: 494. Threads started: 287.
First message: 2010-11-01T20:38:10Z. Latest: 2026-07-12T20:04:39Z.

## Messages per year

| Year | Messages | Patches |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3 |
| 2011 | 14 | 4 |
| 2012 | 132 | 35 |
| 2013 | 242 | 82 |
| 2014 | 246 | 36 |
| 2015 | 231 | 40 |
| 2016 | 418 | 166 |
| 2017 | 174 | 40 |
| 2018 | 135 | 33 |
| 2019 | 64 | 10 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1 |
| 2021 | 58 | 11 |
| 2022 | 50 | 7 |
| 2023 | 43 | 3 |
| 2024 | 46 | 5 |
| 2025 | 35 | 6 |
| 2026 | 26 | 12 |

## Patch series

86 merged, 80 not merged, 0 in review (posted in the last 90 days); acceptance rate 52%. Re-rolls count once; merged means a patch matches a commit on master by the same author.

- 2026-01-12 merged (v3): [Workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/t/64776) commit d0cec08d704a
- 2025-12-15 not merged: [config.mak.uname: Activate ICONV_RESTART_RESET if needed](https://gitlist.dev/t/64634)
- 2025-12-15 not merged: [Makefile: Make all darwin into config.mak.uname](https://gitlist.dev/t/64633)
- 2025-10-21 merged: [unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 17](https://gitlist.dev/t/64361) commit 330a54099ece
- 2025-05-06 merged: [intialize false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it_](https://gitlist.dev/t/63394) commit bebc728d7457
- 2024-05-31 merged (v4): [t0050: ls-files path fails if path of workdir is NFD](https://gitlist.dev/t/61429) commit 71fa8d22126c
- 2023-08-08 not merged: [git stash needing mkdir deletes untracked file](https://gitlist.dev/t/60021)
- 2023-01-22 merged (v2): [t0003: Call dd with portable blocksize](https://gitlist.dev/t/59131) commit 5458ba0a4d2c
- 2022-09-14 not merged (v5): [diff.c: When appropriate, use utf8_strwidth()](https://gitlist.dev/t/58282)
- 2021-04-04 merged (v3): [precompose_utf8: Make precompose_string_if_needed() public](https://gitlist.dev/t/55410) commit 5020774aef3f
- 2021-03-01 merged (v3): [git mv foo FOO ; git mv foo bar gave an assert](https://gitlist.dev/t/54897) commit 93c3d297b506
- 2021-02-03 merged (v4): [git restore -p . and precomposed unicode](https://gitlist.dev/t/54945) commit 5c327502dbf7
- 2020-04-26 not merged (v3): [MacOs/brew: Let the build find gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt](https://gitlist.dev/t/53294)
- 2019-08-24 merged: [mingw: support UNC in git clone file://server/share/repo](https://gitlist.dev/t/51721) commit ebb8d2c90fb0
- 2019-04-13 not merged (v3): [Use size_t instead of unsigned long](https://gitlist.dev/t/49844)
- 2019-03-19 merged (v2): [trace2: NULL is not allowed for va_list](https://gitlist.dev/t/50779) commit ad006fe419ef
- 2019-03-10 not merged: [convert.c: Escape sequences only for a tty in trace_encoding()](https://gitlist.dev/t/50705)
- 2019-03-06 merged (v3): [Support working-tree-encoding "UTF-16LE-BOM"](https://gitlist.dev/t/49734) commit aab2a1ae48ff
- 2019-01-20 merged (v2): [test-lint: sed -E (or -a, -l) are not portable](https://gitlist.dev/t/50055) commit e62e225ffb58
- 2018-12-15 merged (v4): ['git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)](https://gitlist.dev/t/49846) commit 1cadad6f658b
- 2018-11-22 merged: [t5601-99: Enable colliding file detection for MINGW](https://gitlist.dev/t/48963) commit a7f609ec5f3e
- 2018-11-11 merged (v2): [Upcast size_t variables to uintmax_t when printing](https://gitlist.dev/t/49796) commit ca473cef9140
- 2018-11-09 merged (v2): [remote-curl.c: xcurl_off_t is not portable (on 32 bit platfoms)](https://gitlist.dev/t/49676) commit cb8010bbffaa
- 2018-10-25 merged: [path.c: char is not (always) signed](https://gitlist.dev/t/49677) commit 306347744542
- 2018-10-23 not merged (v2): [index_bulk_checkin(): Take off_t, not size_t](https://gitlist.dev/t/49610)
- 2018-10-12 not merged (v2): [zlib.c: use size_t for size](https://gitlist.dev/t/49546)
- 2018-09-12 merged: [Make git_check_attr() a void function](https://gitlist.dev/t/49334) commit d64324cb60e4
- 2018-04-30 merged: [test: Correct detection of UTF8_NFD_TO_NFC for APFS](https://gitlist.dev/t/48364) commit 742ae10e3550
- 2018-02-26 merged (v5): [git diff --UTF-8](https://gitlist.dev/t/47426) commit 8462ff43e42a
- 2017-12-21 not merged (v3): [check-non-portable-shell.pl: Quoted `wc -l` is not portable](https://gitlist.dev/t/47377)

## Recent emails

- 2026-07-12 [Re: cygwin v2.55.0 test failures](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260712200426.GA11328%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-07-03 [Re: [PATCH] precompose_utf8: use a flex array for d_name](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260703050800.GA29216%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-15 [Re: Bug: lowercase "head" resolves to wrong commit in linked worktrees on case-insensitive filesystems](https://gitlist.dev/e/a77695ea-ae24-45ca-8c14-966e25bb90ba%40web.de)
- 2026-05-12 [Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] builtin: implement, document and test url-parse](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260512085734.GA26769%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-10 [Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] index-pack, unpack-objects: use size_t for object size](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260510091436.GA5880%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-08 [Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] index-pack, unpack-objects: use size_t for object size](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260508190947.GA25792%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-05 [Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] odb, packfile: use size_t for streaming object sizes](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260505192722.GB12275%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-05 [Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] index-pack, unpack-objects: use size_t for object size](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260505191100.GA12275%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-05-03 [Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] builtin: implement, document and test url-parse](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260503172838.GA22957%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-04-30 [Re: [PATCH 1/6] index-pack, unpack-objects: use size_t for object size](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260430141320.GA6659%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-02-12 [Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] support UTF-8 in alias names](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260212102711.GA17587%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-02-10 [Re: [PATCH 1/4] t4xxx: don't use iconv(1) without ICONV prereq](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260210111401.GA27953%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-02-10 [Re: [PATCH v1] alias: support UTF-8 characters via subsection syntax](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260210083047.GA23958%40tb-raspi4)
- 2026-01-12 [[PATCH v3 2/2] utf8.c: Enable workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260112162553.774051-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-12 [[PATCH v3 0/2] Workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260112162547.774015-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-12 [[PATCH v3 1/2] utf8.c: Prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260112162551.774037-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-11 [[PATCH v2 2/2] utf8.c: Enable workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260111195151.716191-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-11 [[PATCH v2 0/2] Workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260111195145.716163-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-11 [[PATCH v2 1/2] utf8.c: Prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260111195149.716177-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1-1 0/2] workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108174007.471678-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1 2/2] utf8.c: Enable workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108174012.471706-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1 1/2] utf8.c: Prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108174011.471692-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1 0/2] workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108172325.466118-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1 2/2] utf8.c: Enable workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108172330.466146-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-08 [[PATCH v1 1/2] utf8.c: Prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260108172328.466132-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2026-01-04 [Re: [PATCH] ignores: handle non UTF-8 exclude files](https://gitlist.dev/e/20260104173524.GA29867%40tb-raspi4)
- 2025-12-16 [Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] macOS: make Homebrew use configurable](https://gitlist.dev/e/20251216214943.GA31390%40tb-raspi4)
- 2025-12-15 [[PATCH v0 3/3] config.mak.uname: Activate ICONV_RESTART_RESET if needed](https://gitlist.dev/e/20251215204524.1946518-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2025-12-15 [[PATCH v0 2/3] Makefile: Make all darwin into config.mak.uname](https://gitlist.dev/e/20251215204522.1946504-1-tboegi%40web.de)
- 2025-12-15 [[PATCH v0 1/3] utf8.c: Prepare workaround for iconv under macOS 14/15](https://gitlist.dev/e/20251215204521.1946490-1-tboegi%40web.de)
