Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #03; Wed, 14)

> On 15 Mar 2018, at 02:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> * ls/checkout-encoding (2018-03-09) 10 commits
> - convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'
> - convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
> - convert: advise canonical UTF encoding names
> - convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
> - convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
> - utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM
> - utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM
> - strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()
> - strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper()
> - strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
> 
> The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
> contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
> tree (and the other way around when checking in).
> 
> Expecting a reroll.
> cf. <66370A41-A048-44E7-9BF8-4631C50AAE63@gmail.com>
> Modulo minor design decision corrections, the series is almost there.