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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 5e2e13b5e0..e734a3f0f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ message to an external program, and this is a handy way to drive `git am`. However, if the message is MIME encoded, what is piped into the program is the representation you see in your `*Article*` buffer after unwrapping MIME. This is often not what -you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non ASCII +you would want for two reasons. It tends to screw up non-ASCII characters (most notably in people's names), and also whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running "C-u g" to display the message in raw form before using "|" to run the pipe can work |