Re: [PATCH v10 6/9] convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute

> On 07 Mar 2018, at 18:54, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:30 PM,  <lars.schneider@autodesk.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Add an attribute to tell Git what encoding the user has defined for a
>> given file. If the content is added to the index, then Git converts the
>> content to a canonical UTF-8 representation. On checkout Git will
>> reverse the conversion.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/gitattributes.txt  |  80 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
>> @@ -265,6 +266,78 @@ static int will_convert_lf_to_crlf(size_t len, struct text_stat *stats,
>> +static const char *default_encoding = "UTF-8";
>> @@ -978,6 +1051,21 @@ static int ident_to_worktree(const char *path, const char *src, size_t len,
>> +static const char *git_path_check_encoding(struct attr_check_item *check)
>> +{
>> +       const char *value = check->value;
>> +
>> +       if (ATTR_TRUE(value) || ATTR_FALSE(value) || ATTR_UNSET(value) ||
>> +           !strlen(value))
>> +               return NULL;
>> +
>> +       /* Don't encode to the default encoding */
>> +       if (!strcasecmp(value, default_encoding))
>> +               return NULL;
> 
> As of v10, the rest of the code accepts encoding names "UTF-xx" and
> "UTFxx" (case insensitive), however, this check recognizes only
> "UTF-8" (case insensitive). For consistency, one would expect this
> also to recognize "UTF8" (case insensitive).