git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver patches for 4.11-rc1)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:59:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > =?UTF-8?q?Simon=20Sandstr=C3=B6m?= (1):
> >       staging: vt6656: Add missing identifier names
> 
> Wow, your scripts really screwed up that name.
> 
> I'm assuming this is quilt not doing proper character set handling..
> 
> Because if it's git, we need to get that fixed (but I'm pretty sure
> git gets this right - there are various tests for email header
> quoting).
> 
> Alternatively, somebody hand-edited some email and moved the From:
> header to the body without fixing up the RFC 1342 mail header quoting
> (which is very different from how quoting works in the *body* of an
> email).
> 
> 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?

thanks,

greg k-h

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