From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Print diffs of UTF-16 to console / patches to email as UTF-8...?
Message-ID: <20101022161851.GH9224@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1287763608.31218.63.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Hi,

Drew Northup wrote:

>         This is part of my ongoing work to treat UTF-16 as text (in
> other words, the crlf options will work and .gitattributes hacks won't
> be required to display diffs, etc).

What's wrong with .gitattributes for this use case?  I would think a
clean/smudge filter would produce very good behavior from most git
commands.

If speed is the issue, maybe a built-in clean/smudge filter would
address that?