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Re: [PATCH] Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pages

From
Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Date
Sep 20, 2007, 09:08 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>> so
>> UTF-8 characters are just displayed as their sequence of bytes, which is
>> not very appealing.
> 
> Perhaps not.  I cannot decide what to do with
> Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt, though.
>

These days when we have delta reusing and repacking is quite cheap, I'd say just drop pack-redundant and its man page completely.

Of course, some pople might still be using it, but I haven't felt the need for it in over a year.

/Lukas Sandström
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  1. Drop UTF-8 characters in manual pagesMike Hommey, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2007
  3. Mike HommeySep 18, 2007
  4. Lukas SandströmSep 20, 2007

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