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

From	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver patches for 4.11-rc1)
Date	2017-02-23 07:20 +0100
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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@nikanor.nu>

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

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Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver patches for 4.11-rc1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-02-22 21:00 +0100
  git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver  patches for 4.11-rc1) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-23 07:10 +0100
    Re: git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver  patches for 4.11-rc1) Jeff King <peff@peff.net> - 2017-02-23 07:20 +0100
      Re: git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver  patches for 4.11-rc1) Simon Sandström <simon@nikanor.nu> - 2017-02-23 09:00 +0100
      Re: git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver  patches for 4.11-rc1) Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-24 12:10 +0100
        Re: git email From: parsing (was Re: [GIT PULL] Staging/IIO driver  patches for 4.11-rc1) Jeff King <peff@peff.net> - 2017-02-24 20:10 +0100

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