From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:02:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 2/2] Add getPatchText functions to obtain the plain-text version of a patch
Message-ID: <200812131202.07717.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1229136146-15359-2-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

lördag 13 december 2008 03:42:26 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
> The conversion from byte[] to String is performed one line at a time,
> in case the patch is a character encoding conversion patch for the
> file.  For simplicity we currently assume UTF-8 still as the default
> encoding for any content, but eventually we should support using the
> .gitattributes encoding property when performing this conversion.

For usefulness we must be able to pass the encoding from outside, 
e.g. the encoding Eclipse uses, which often is not UTF-8-

-- robin