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

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Jan 6 14:01:45 EST 2010


On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 18:07 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > That's unfortunate.  An option to git-am or it's subsidiary tools to
> > convert the patch as well as the commit would be useful.  After all it
> > _is_ made clear in the MIME header how it's formatted.
> 
> ISTR there was some resistance to that suggestion when git-am was first
> fixed to handle the Content-Type of mails. The idea was that the patch
> should be considered sacrosanct and shouldn't be mangled.

Well, initially git-am was "fixed" by providing an option to allow 
normalization to UTF-8 of patch metadata.  Nowadays this option is the 
default.  So at least providing an option to convert the patch content 
as well might be perfectly sane.


Nicolas



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