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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat•com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail•com>,
	Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@cn•fujitsu.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu•org, tangchen@cn•fujitsu.com,
	chen.fan.fnst@cn•fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp•fujitsu.com,
	imammedo@redhat•com, guz.fnst@cn•fujitsu.com,
	anshul.makkar@profitbricks•com, afaerber@suse•de,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:29:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqiofgkvi4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D38B73.4060803@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:25:39 -0700")

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat•com> writes:

> On 02/05/2015 04:49 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:27:23PM +0800, Zhu Guihua wrote:
>>> This series is based on the previous patchset from Chen Fan:
>>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg02360.html
>> 
>> This email has an invalid charset:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="y"
>> 
>> I guess you entered "y" when asked how the message was encoded.
>> 
>> Please don't do that, it means we can only guess at the charset.
>
> In the past, people made a similar problem when 'git send-email' was
> asking if a message was in-reply-to something else (the number of
> messages incorrectly threaded to a message-id of 'y' or 'n' was evidence
> of the poor quality of the question).  git.git commit 51bbccfd1b4a
> corrected that problem.  Sounds like charset encoding is another case
> where the interactive parser should be taught to balk at nonsense
> encoding answers?

I think I answered this in $gmane/263354; care to come up with a
plausible valid_re?  It is inpractical to attempt to cover all valid
charset names, so whatever you do I'd imagine you would want to pass
the confirm_only parameter set to true.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-05 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1421214154.git.zhugh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
     [not found] ` <20150205114914.GA10126@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
2015-02-05 15:25   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support Eric Blake
2015-02-05 19:29     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-05 19:57       ` Jeff King
2015-02-05 20:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-04  9:07           ` Invalid responses to 8bit encoding and In-Reply-To questions Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-04 18:34             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-01 10:53               ` Guilhem Bichot
2015-04-01 18:03                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-06 19:33           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/7] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support Jeff King
2015-02-16 22:34             ` [PATCH] send-email: ask confirmation if given encoding name is very short Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 18:58               ` Jeff King

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