Subject: Re: specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo)

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:52:12 +0100

Alexander Litvinov wrote:

>>> What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on
>>> its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset).
>>
>> We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710
>> Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8.
> 
> May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ?

I think it should be repository-wide decision. And we have
i18n.commitEncoding configuration variable (perhaps it should be propagated
on clone?).
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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