make git barf when an alias changes environment variables

diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index bee066fa3227c876022424bd0e6238c1053e1231..5632e32685478dcce34e479e8e916b0ccd3a3b13 100644 (file)
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -511,12 +511,16 @@ static int add_rfc2047(char *buf, const char *line, int len,
        bp += i;
        for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                unsigned ch = line[i] & 0xFF;
-               if (is_rfc2047_special(ch)) {
+               /*
+                * We encode ' ' using '=20' even though rfc2047
+                * allows using '_' for readability.  Unfortunately,
+                * many programs do not understand this and just
+                * leave the underscore in place.
+                */
+               if (is_rfc2047_special(ch) || ch == ' ') {
                        sprintf(bp, "=%02X", ch);
                        bp += 3;
                }
-               else if (ch == ' ')
-                       *bp++ = '_';
                else
                        *bp++ = ch;
        }