From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:54:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header
Message-ID: <7vd55ilsm7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200701131323.53121.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:

> 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.