From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 11:26:12 GMT
Subject: Re: utf8 BOM
Message-ID: <20100516112612.GV2480@ece.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00E0B9AC-2A2E-4F95-9B35-F3F63EBC3CF3@gmail.com>

> Okay, so something that checks text files to see if they're utf...
> "core.autoutf", anyone?

This (and crlf-conversion, for that matter) strikes me as something best 
handled outside of git core, such as through checkout/commit hooks. Perhaps 
examples of such hooks could be provided and adapted by each project and 
user as that user/project sees fit for their specific choice of repository 
format and development environment.

Given that git already chose not to screw around with encodings or define 
a canonical encoding for the on-disk format (it's just a string of bytes), 
it would be consistent and reasonable to not mess with these other things, 
too.

Tait