From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:01:04 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb on kernel.org and UTF-8
Message-ID: <20051124050104.GC16995@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfypm20eh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:24:38PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> How about doing something like this?
> 
> 	[i18n]
>         	commitEncoding = utf8
> 		blobEncoding = utf8
> 
> to mean:
> 
> 	If you _have_ to make an assumption on an encoding
> 	commit and blob objects are in, utf8 is your best bet
> 	(but mistakes can happen, and some blobs can be binary).

The rest of the options help clarify this, but can you make these
options 'assumeCommitEncoding' and 'assumeBlobEncoding' to make it clear
that these are *assumptions* and not actually controlling what gets
written?


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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere