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Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 27, 2011, 23:44 UTC
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<20111027234429.GA28187@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:14:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > Minor nit, but this is just for diff, so it is not about clean/smudge
> > but rather about doing something like textconv.
> 
> I can understand if some tools in the Windows land prefer to work with
> these encodings, so clean/smudge to have the checkout in these encodings
> would be a reasonable thing not just diff but things like grep. On the
> other hand, I do doubt the sanity of these people if they want to have
> in-repository representation also in these encodings.

I'm pretty much of the same mind. We do have people with utf-16 in their repositories on github. I have no idea why they do such a thing, or what kinds of tricks they do to make it usable (because without it, they just get "binary files differ").

My interest is to make things like bare-repository diff (and everything built on it; i.e., things like github, gitweb, or whatever) do the sane thing for these people, even if I think what they're doing is wrong. And as always, I try to structure the git portions of that as much as possible to be general and help everybody, so they can be pushed upstream (also, then I don't have to worry about managing local changes :) ).

But it sounds like this is probably just too ugly and should end up as a github-specific thing.

-Peff
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Message 22 of 26 in “Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages”
  1. Jeff KingOct 22, 2011
  2. Robin RosenbergOct 23, 2011
  3. Jeff KingOct 23, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  10. Jeff KingOct 23, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2011
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 24, 2011
  14. Štěpán NěmecOct 24, 2011
  15. Jeff KingOct 24, 2011
  16. Štěpán NěmecOct 25, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2011
  18. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2011
  20. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2011
  22. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011
  24. Jeff KingOct 28, 2011
  25. Miles BaderOct 28, 2011
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011

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