Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #03; Wed, 14)

> On 15 Mar 2018, at 20:18, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
>> On 15 Mar 2018, at 02:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> * ls/checkout-encoding (2018-03-09) 10 commits
>> - convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'
>> - convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
>> - convert: advise canonical UTF encoding names
>> - convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
>> - convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
>> - utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM
>> - utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM
>> - strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()
>> - strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper()
>> - strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
>> 
>> The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
>> contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
>> tree (and the other way around when checking in).
>> 
>> Expecting a reroll.
>> cf. <66370A41-A048-44E7-9BF8-4631C50AAE63@gmail.com>
>> Modulo minor design decision corrections, the series is almost there.
> 
> If I hurry up (IOW: send a reroll tonight), would this topic
> have a chance for 2.17-rc1 or is it too late?