Re: Possible bug: "git log" ignores "--encoding=UTF-8" option if --pretty=format:%e%n%s%n is used

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 12, 2008, 11:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20081112112654.GA20640@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <85647ef50811120311q7bc5451x7c084fd2a7864177@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:11:46PM +0300, Constantine Plotnikov wrote:

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> > I don't actually use any encodings except UTF-8, so maybe there is some
> > subtle reason not to do so that I don't understand, but I would have
> > expected all of the format placeholders to respect any --encoding
> > parameter.
> >
> Even if this is the bug, it would be better to leave the old behavior
> for backward compatibility reasons and introduce new placeholders.
> Currently tools have to decode messages according to the commit
> encoding, and changing behavior of options will break these tools
> that have implemented workaround for this problem.

Are there such tools? I assumed they would have complained about this as a bug before writing their own encoding conversion tools. And this is, AFAIK, the first bug report.

I don't mind playing it safe to avoid breaking other people's tools, but I'm also not excited about adding a second, "respect encoding" version of many placeholders (and it's not just %s and %b; I think you would need author and committer names and emails, too).

-Peff