From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:32:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mailinfo: allow -u to fall back on latin1 to utf8 conversion.
Message-ID: <438AA48B.8000808@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jat61xq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When the message body does not identify what encoding it is in,
> -u assumes it is in latin-1 and converts it to utf8, which is
> the recommended encoding for git commit log messages.
> 
> With -u=<encoding>, the conversion is made into the specified
> one, instead of utf8, to allow project-local policies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> 

-u= is very odd syntax.  Typically you see "-u argument" (sometimes you 
have "-u" and "-U argument" as a pair); --foo=argument is used for long 
options, although even there "--foo argument" tends to be used at least 
when the argument is required.

Incidentally, any reason we're not using getopt_long() for command-line 
parsing?

	-hpa