On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:14:36PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > | It's supposed to handle this automatically if the commit message > | contains non-ascii characters. What version of git were you using? > > A version from "next" from March 8: > ea6cde37d54121c5a1e1da51e1cd5cf27bfa3904 (+ 1 unrelated patch) Hmm, that is certainly recent enough. > E.g, does "git format-patch a1eebf~1..a1eebf" add MIME headers for you > without my patch? Sorry, I don't have that commit. What repo is it in? It does work for me with this simple test: mkdir repo && cd repo && git init echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m one echo more >>file && git commit -a -m 'two utf8 body: ñ' git format-patch HEAD^ cat 0001-two.patch I get: -- >8 -- >From a9e3222c0dca0a2b1e1a53ab9b7a7526ed359b79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:27:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] two MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit utf8 body: ñ --- file | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/file b/file index d95f3ad..94b334d 100644 --- a/file +++ b/file @@ -1 +1,2 @@ content +more -- 1.5.4.4.553.g83e84.dirty -- 8< -- So I assume there is some bug in git that is being triggered by the commit you mention. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html