From: Miklos Vajna Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:13:22 GMT Subject: Re: Interactive rebase encoding Message-ID: <20081215151322.GI5691@genesis.frugalware.org> In-Reply-To: <85647ef50812150442n48609eadl4f3e47fcc715e643@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:42:08PM +0300, Constantine Plotnikov wrote: > The interactive rebase command builds a text file and passes it to > editor specified as environment variable or as configuration > parameter. However the man page for rebase operation says nothing > about which encoding will be used for that file. Apparently > i18n.logoutputencoding is used. I think that the man page for rebase > operation should explicitly specify it. Care to send a patch? > Also it might make sense to use explicit encoding parameter for > interactive rebase operation. Do you have a use-case where having a different encoding for log output and rebase -i todo list makes sense? Thanks.