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Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 13, 2007, 17:54 UTC
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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
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> lördag 13 januari 2007 02:43 skrev Junio C Hamano:
>> Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
>> made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
>> commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.
>
> Wasn't there a repository option, "commitencoding"?  I can't see it being
> used here.

commitencoding is about what encoding the commit newly created in this repository right now should claim to have -- in other words what is fed to commit-tree.

We are talking about examining existing commit that might have come from another repository or created some time ago when the repository configuration was set differently.

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Message 11 of 18 in “Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header”
  1. Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail headerDavid Kågedal, Jan 12, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 13, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2007
  7. David KågedalJan 15, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2007
  9. David KågedalJan 16, 2007
  10. Robin RosenbergJan 13, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2007
  12. David KågedalJan 15, 2007
  13. Alex RiesenJan 13, 2007
  14. Horst H. von BrandJan 14, 2007
  15. Alex RiesenJan 14, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2007
  17. David KågedalJan 15, 2007
  18. David KågedalJan 15, 2007

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