On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:04:44AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > Poor Simon Sandström. > > > > Funnily enough, this only exists for one commit. You've got several > > other commits from Simon that get his name right. > > > > What happened? > > I don't know what happened, I used git for this, I don't use quilt for > "normal" patches accepted into my trees anymore, only for stable kernel > work. > > So either the mail is malformed, or git couldn't figure it out, I've > attached the original message below, and cc:ed the git mailing list. > > Also, Simon emailed me after this was committed saying something went > wrong, but I couldn't go back and rebase my tree. Simon, did you ever > figure out if something was odd on your end? > > Git developers, any ideas? The problem isn't on the applying end, but rather on the generating end. The From header in the attached mbox is: From: =?us-ascii?B?PT9VVEYtOD9xP1NpbW9uPTIwU2FuZHN0cj1DMz1CNm0/PQ==?= <simon@xxxxxxxxxx> If you de-base64 that, you get: =?UTF-8?q?Simon=20Sandstr=C3=B6m?= So something double-encoded it before it got to your mbox. -Peff