mbox patch corruption?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 08:51 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:02:23PM +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> >Hi Josh,
> >
> >> I've been doing some work with non-ascii encodings recently, so may
> >> have broken this. Will take a look soon.
> >
> >Looks like this is a "technically correct, but useless" problem - the 
> >email has a transfer encoding of quoted-printable, which is 
> >encoding '<space><newline>' as '<space>=<newline><newline>'.
> >
> >However, most people aren't using the mbox files as actual mbox, so 
> >perhaps an 8-bit raw encoding of utf-8 would be more appropriate.
> 
> I use them as an mbox all the time.  Basically, I collect up the
> patches I want to put in my tree, download the mbox, and apply
> them via 'git-am -i', wWhich expects an mbox.
> 
> The mbox file with those issues failed to apply via git, for
> valid reasons since the patch was screwed up.

Well, no, from what I understand, it's git who screws up if the
mail is encoded in quoted printable no ? Anyway, no big deal, if
patchwork can make sure the mbox is always encoded in UTF-8.

Ben.