From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:11:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Git *accepts* a branch name, it can't identity in the future?
Message-ID: <1503220271.5824.9.camel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <829ac9ed-857d-84bf-2374-6a36b1d0aff1@kdbg.org>

On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 10:20 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 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