From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:34:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug: "git log" ignores "--encoding=UTF-8" option if --pretty=format:%e%n%s%n is used
Message-ID: <20081113043454.GA5048@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdusjtg8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:38:47PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > BTW for some reason --pretty=raw is affected by encoding option on the
> > command line.
> 
> Unfortunately, that is what you get for reading from a Porcelain output,
> which is meant for, and are subject to improvement for, human consumption.
> 
> If you want bit-for-bit information, you can always ask "git cat-file".

What about "git rev-list --pretty=raw"? Is that also porcelain?

I would be curious to hear your take on our failure to respect
--encoding for --pretty=format. Is it a bug to be fixed, or a historical
behavior to be maintained?

-Peff