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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2011, 19:14 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:47:27AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm tempted to detect the UTF-{16,32}{LE,BE} by their BOM, reencode them
>> > to utf8, and then display them in utf8. Is that too gross for us to
>> > consider?
>> 
>> I tend to think so; it is entirely a different matter if the user
>> instructed us to clean/smudge UTF-16 payload into/outof UTF-8.
>
> 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.

So I do not think "it is just for diff" is any improvement.
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  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
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  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
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