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> Am 24.07.2017 um 22:32 schrieb Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:26:22PM +0200, tonka3100@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If you're unhappy
>>> with the file as utf-16, then you should probably convert to utf-8 as a
>>> single commit (since the diff will otherwise be unreadable) and then
>>> make further changes in utf-8.
>
>> That was exactly what i'm searching for. The utf-16 back in the days
>> was by accident (thx to visual studio). So if the last commit and the
>> acutal change are both utf-8 the diff should work again. Just for my
>> understanding. Git just take the bytes of the whole file on every
>> commit, so there is no general problem with that, the size of the
>> utf-16 is just twice as big as the utf-8 one, is that correct?
>
> Right. The diff switching the encodings will be listed as "binary" (and
> you should write a good commit message explaining what's going on!), but
> then after that the changes to the utf-8 version will display as normal
> text. Git only looks at the actual bytes being diffed, not older
> versions of the file.
>
> -Peff