diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt
index 06e44f7735..c9f948ec0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.6.txt
@@ -9,13 +9,44 @@ Fixes since v1.5.3.5
  * git-svn dcommit used to clobber when sending a series of
    patches;
 
+ * git-svn dcommit failed after attempting to rebase when
+   started with a dirty index; now it stops upfront.
+
  * git-grep sometimes refused to work when your index was
    unmerged;
 
+ * git-hash-object did not honor configuration variables, such as
+   core.compression.
+
+ * git-index-pack choked on a huge pack on 32-bit machines, even when
+   large file offsets are supported.
+
+ * atom feeds from git-web said "10" for the month of November.
+
+ * a memory leak in commit walker was plugged.
+
+ * When git-send-email inserted the original author's From:
+   address in body, it did not mark the message with
+   Content-type: as needed.
+
+ * git-revert and git-cherry-pick incorrectly refused to start
+   when the work tree was dirty.
+
+ * git-clean did not honor core.excludesfile configuration.
+
+ * git-add mishandled ".gitignore" files when applying them to
+   subdirectories.
+
+ * While importing a too branchy history, git-fastimport did not
+   honor delta depth limit properly.
+
+ * Support for zlib implementations that lack ZLIB_VERNUM and definition
+   of deflateBound() has been added.
+
  * Quite a lot of documentation clarifications.
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.3.5-32-gcb6c162
+O=v1.5.3.5-57-gb574c8d
 echo O=`git describe refs/heads/maint`
 git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/maint
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index f9bd2e5a91..fd0a4ad0c2 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -514,11 +514,13 @@ sub make_message_id
 
 sub unquote_rfc2047 {
 	local ($_) = @_;
-	if (s/=\?utf-8\?q\?(.*)\?=/$1/g) {
+	my $encoding;
+	if (s/=\?([^?]+)\?q\?(.*)\?=/$2/g) {
+		$encoding = $1;
 		s/_/ /g;
 		s/=([0-9A-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;
 	}
-	return "$_";
+	return wantarray ? ($_, $encoding) : $_;
 }
 
 # use the simplest quoting being able to handle the recipient
@@ -667,6 +669,9 @@ sub send_message
 	open(F,"<",$t) or die "can't open file $t";
 
 	my $author = undef;
+	my $author_encoding;
+	my $has_content_type;
+	my $body_encoding;
 	@cc = @initial_cc;
 	@xh = ();
 	my $input_format = undef;
@@ -692,12 +697,20 @@ sub send_message
 						next if ($suppress_from);
 					}
 					elsif ($1 eq 'From') {
-						$author = unquote_rfc2047($2);
+						($author, $author_encoding)
+						  = unquote_rfc2047($2);
 					}
 					printf("(mbox) Adding cc: %s from line '%s'\n",
 						$2, $_) unless $quiet;
 					push @cc, $2;
 				}
+				elsif (/^Content-type:/i) {
+					$has_content_type = 1;
+					if (/charset="?[^ "]+/) {
+						$body_encoding = $1;
+					}
+					push @xh, $_;
+				}
 				elsif (!/^Date:\s/ && /^[-A-Za-z]+:\s+\S/) {
 					push @xh, $_;
 				}
@@ -756,6 +769,21 @@ sub send_message
 
 	if (defined $author) {
 		$message = "From: $author\n\n$message";
+		if (defined $author_encoding) {
+			if ($has_content_type) {
+				if ($body_encoding eq $author_encoding) {
+					# ok, we already have the right encoding
+				}
+				else {
+					# uh oh, we should re-encode
+				}
+			}
+			else {
+				push @xh,
+				  'MIME-Version: 1.0',
+				  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$author_encoding";
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	send_message();
diff --git a/t/t9101-git-svn-props.sh b/t/t9101-git-svn-props.sh
index 3c83127a0e..d7a704754e 100755
--- a/t/t9101-git-svn-props.sh
+++ b/t/t9101-git-svn-props.sh
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ EOF
 	printf "\r\n" > empty_crlf
 	a_empty_crlf=`git-hash-object -w empty_crlf`
 
-	svn import -m 'import for git-svn' . "$svnrepo" >/dev/null
+	svn import --no-auto-props -m 'import for git-svn' . "$svnrepo" >/dev/null
 cd ..
 
 rm -rf import