From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:28:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vljakfc64.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cebe57bb68b5e8ea445e560bbe6305c915ce8a1c.1276354971.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Sat\, 12 Jun 2010 17\:06\:20 +0200")
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> git-send-email passes on an 8bit mail as-is even if it does not
> declare a content-type. Because the user can edit email between
> format-patch and send-email, such invalid mails are unfortunately not
> very hard to come by.
>
> Make git-send-email stop and ask about the encoding to use if it
> encounters any such mail. Also provide a configuration setting to
> permanently configure an encoding.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
> ---
>
> This takes care of what I ran into earlier today. However, there's
> another problem: format-patch doesn't even mark the patch 8bit if its
> patch contents (not log message) are non-ASCII. I'm really not sure
> what to do there.
A project won't have uniform file encoding anyway, so even if we were to
do something clever about this, it has to be per-patch. Perhaps
(0) use the attributes mechanism to allow projects to mark paths with
encoding. E.g.
# everything in UTF-8 unless otherwise specified...
* encoding=UTF-8
Documentation/zh_CN/* encoding=big5
(1) for each patch, find the paths involved, and if their encodings are
the same, perhaps promote that as the encoding used for the entire
message;
(2) otherwise, if there is an 8-bit encoding involved in the paths,
perhaps mark the entire message as 8-bit (binary???).
I have this suspicion that (2) is very rare (you cannot transmit such a
patch as a plain text message reliably afaict, so it is not done in
practice), and we would probably need to make a separate patchfile for
groups of paths in each encoding and attach them as MIME multiparts (ugh).
Just thinkning aloud, before morning caffeine sinks in, so please take
this with a grain of salt...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-12 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-06 0:05 [PATCH] bash completion: Support "unpushed commits" warnings in __git_ps1 Andrew Sayers
2010-06-06 18:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-06 20:49 ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-06 21:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-06 22:19 ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-07 7:42 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-08 21:36 ` [RFC/PATCHv2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-09 8:21 ` Peter Kjellerstedt
2010-06-09 8:45 ` John Tapsell
2010-06-09 21:02 ` Steven Michalske
2010-06-09 9:17 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-09 20:48 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-09 21:03 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-06-10 11:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-10 11:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] rev-list: introduce --count option Thomas Rast
2010-06-10 11:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 0:00 ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-06-12 10:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 9:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] rev-list: introduce --count option Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 9:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Thomas Rast
2010-06-14 3:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-14 7:44 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-14 12:36 ` SZEDER Gábor
2010-06-12 10:11 ` vger doesn't like UTF-8 from send-email Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 15:06 ` [PATCH] send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails Thomas Rast
2010-06-12 16:28 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-06-13 15:09 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-13 4:15 ` vger doesn't like UTF-8 from send-email Michael Witten
2010-06-14 11:57 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-06-12 20:50 ` [PATCH] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" messages in __git_ps1 Andrew Sayers
2010-06-14 7:42 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-15 21:50 ` [PATCHv4] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-16 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-16 19:11 ` Thomas Rast
2010-06-17 21:31 ` [PATCHv5 0/2] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-18 16:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-18 21:02 ` Andrew Sayers
2010-06-17 21:32 ` [PATCHv5 1/2] " Andrew Sayers
2010-06-17 21:32 ` [PATCHv5 2/2] bash-completion: Fix __git_ps1 to work with "set -u" Andrew Sayers
2010-06-10 13:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" warnings in __git_ps1 Michael J Gruber
2010-06-10 12:03 ` [RFC/PATCHv2] " Thomas Rast
2010-06-06 20:12 ` [PATCH] bash completion: Support "unpushed commits" " Thomas Rast
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