Re: [PATCH 1/5] Consistent representation of O₂

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Ha. Looking at your headers that's what you did. Linus, any idea why git
> send-email would send out such junk?

Looks like somebody enabled colorization, and then the mailer ended up
escaping the ESC bytes as '^[' . Those escape sequences are ANSI color
codes.

Maybe Tim was playing with options, and had "--color=always" or something?

                     Linus