Sending UTF-8 patches (was: [PATCH 2/2] Remove now-defunct ts7250 nand driver)

[Jamie Lokier]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 23:05 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > As I don't work with Git source and don't have enough time, I won't be
> > doing this, but I'd be delighted if someone else took the idea to the
> > Git people.  This thread could be used to explain why :-) 
> 
> I won't be bothering -- I'm quite happy just telling people not to send
> me legacy crap. There really is no justification for it, these days.

I suggest mutt users put this in .muttrc to work around git's inconsistency:

   set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"

If that's not acceptable, one could always add a hook to grep for a
patch when sending to decide what to do :-)

-- Jamie