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From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator•liu.se>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyac44e9.fsf@morpheus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vmz4nog5b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net> writes:

> Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
> made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
> commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.

This was exactly the problem I was trying to solve.

> We might want to help transitioning people by doing something
> like this on top of the previous patch.  Then when dealing with
> an ancient commit (sorry, I am not saying commits older than 3
> weeks are ancient -- but it will be 6 months from now ;-), you
> can override that default by setting an environment variable.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
> index 9b2b842..a1b5705 100644
> --- a/commit.c
> +++ b/commit.c
> @@ -692,8 +692,12 @@ static char *logmsg_reencode(const struct commit *commit,
>  	if (!*output_encoding)
>  		return NULL;
>  	encoding = get_header(commit, "encoding");
> -	if (!encoding)
> -		encoding = utf8;
> +	if (!encoding) {
> +		if (getenv("GIT_OLD_COMMIT_ENCODING"))
> +			encoding = strdup(getenv("GIT_OLD_COMMIT_ENCODING"));
> +		else
> +			encoding = utf8;
> +	}
>  	if (!strcmp(encoding, output_encoding))
>  		out = strdup(commit->buffer);
>  	else
>
>
>

-- 
David Kågedal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-12 13:06 [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header David Kågedal
2007-01-12 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13  1:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13  1:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-13 11:19       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-13 17:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:58         ` David Kågedal
2007-01-16 11:41           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-16 12:43             ` David Kågedal
2007-01-13 12:23       ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-01-13 17:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:54       ` David Kågedal [this message]
2007-01-13 11:02     ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-14  0:42       ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-14 19:25         ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-13 22:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-15 16:57     ` David Kågedal
2007-01-15 16:53   ` David Kågedal

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