Re: Broken umlaut in my name, again

2009/4/6 Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref]:

On 2009.04.06 14:46:43 +0200, Santi Béjar wrote:

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2009/4/6 Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref]:

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On 2009.03.31 17:30:39 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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While it makes no sense to map some email address to an empty one, doing
things the other way around can be useful. For example when using
filter-branch with an env-filter that employs a mailmap to fix up an
import that created such broken commits with empty email addresses.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <redacted>

The umlaut (ö) in my name is broken in the commit that made it into
git.git --> 5288dd58356e53d61e2b3804fc7d8d23c3a46ab3

Last time this happened when I used format-patch -s instead of commit -s
IIRC. But since then, I pay attention to do the sign-off via commit -s,
yet my name is broken again. What did I do wrong this time?

I don't see nothing wrong in your mails. It appears to be a double
conversion to UTF-8 between the mail and the commit.

But I always use format-patch -s without problems, what was your
problem with format-patch?

I don't recall the exact problem, and I can't find the mails anymore,
the IIRC it was something about Content-type being generated from the
original commit message, and only afterwards the sign-off line got
added, or something like that. That causes the Content-type to say
ascii, although the sign-off had UTF-8 in it. Or something like that.
Might very well have been fixed since then

Yes, it is fixed (at least what you described).

(it was almost 2 years ago
that I hit that bug IIRC),

Uf! half an eternity in git scale ;-)

Santi