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Re: Git *accepts* a branch name, it can't identity in the future?

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2017, 09:11 UTC
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<1503220271.5824.9.camel@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 10:20 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> It is not Git's fault that your terminal converts an invalid UTF-8 
> sequence (that your script produces) to �. Nor is it when you paste that 
> character onto the command line, that it is passed as a (correct) UTF-8 
> character.
>

You're right. I just now realise how I missed the line between "what's seen by us" and "what's seen by the program".

> Perhaps this helps (untested):
> 
> $ git branch -m done/$(printf '\x93')doc-fix done/dic-fix
> 
This one helped, thanks.
-- 
Kaartic
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