Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.5-rc2

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 28, 2008, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080328212700.GA9529@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080328212340.GC9131@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:23:40PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> > I was getting the impression that it was still in "ah, but this is
> > better", "you are right, but how about doing this", stage and was hoping
> > that "ok, based on the discussion here is the final one" will come soon.
> 
> Ah. I think the current status is "here are two patches that work, but
> will always assume utf-8 encoding" which I think is not unreasonable as
> a bugfix. A nice feature would be to allow setting the encoding, but:

After sending my lengthy response, I realized that you might have actually been talking about the minor fixups that happened, and missed the "correct" 2/2 which was sent later in the thread. So following this are the most up-to-date versions. 1/1 is the same as the original, 2/2 does Teemu's "let user set subject in editor" suggestion, plus the follow-on syntax fixup.

-Peff