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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
	Lars Schneider <lars.schneider@autodesk•com>,
	Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	peff@peff•net, patrick@luehne•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:15:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7esyiwju.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171229125954.GA9772@tor.lan> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:59:54 +0100")

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web•de> writes:

> May be.
> Originally utf8.c was about encoding and all kind of UTF-8 related stuff.
> Especially it didn't know anything about strbuf.
> I don't know why strbuf.h and other functions had been added here,
>
> I once moved them into strbuf.c without any problems, but never send out
> a patch, because of possible merge conflicts in ongoing patches.
>
> In any case, if it is about strbuf, I would try to put it into strbuf.c

Please don't.

A code that happens to use strbuf as a container and about
manipulating the contents is quite different from a code about
strbuf.  The latter is to enhance and extend how the strbuf as a
container behaves.  An operation about character encoding for a
string that happens to be stored in strbuf is more about the
encoding, and much much less about strbuf.

convert.c is about massaging contents coming from the outside world
into a shape stored in Git and the other way around, and there are
multiple ways the contents are massaged.  EOL convention may be
adjusted, characters may be reencoded, end-user defined conversion
may be applied.  Some of these operations may use helpers specific
for the task from other more library-ish files, like checking if a
string looks like encoded in UTF-8 from utf8.[ch].


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-03 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-11 15:50 [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute lars.schneider
2017-12-11 18:39 ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-11 23:47   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-11 23:58     ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-12 10:58       ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-11 20:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-11 23:42   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-12  0:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12  7:15       ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-12 10:55         ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-12 19:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 17:57             ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-13 18:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 23:02                 ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-14 23:01                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12  7:09     ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-18 10:13   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-18 13:12     ` Jeff King
2017-12-23  8:08       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 0/2] git diff --UTF-8 tboegi
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] convert_to_git(): checksafe becomes an integer tboegi
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] git diff: Allow to reencode into UTF-8 tboegi
2018-02-26 17:27       ` [PATCH/RFC 1/1] Auto diff of UTF-16 files in UTF-8 tboegi
2018-02-26 18:43         ` Peter Krefting
2018-02-27 22:39         ` Jeff King
2017-12-18 18:02     ` [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute Junio C Hamano
2017-12-18 21:55     ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-15  9:58 ` Jeff King
2017-12-18 10:54   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-18 12:59     ` Jeff King
2017-12-17 17:14 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-28 16:14   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-29 12:59     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-29 13:56       ` Lars Schneider
2018-01-03 19:15       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-01-03 20:45         ` Lars Schneider

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