From: Alexander Litvinov Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:23:13 GMT Subject: Re: specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo) Message-ID: <200612211623.14236.litvinov2004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: > > What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on > > its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset). > > We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710 > Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8. May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ?