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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 28, 2011, 04:07 UTC
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> We do have people with utf-16 in their repositories on github. I
>> have no idea why they do such a thing, or what kinds of tricks they
>> do to make it usable (because without it, they just get "binary
>> files differ").
>
> Hmm, you could ask them ...  [or, I suppose more diplomatically, post
> a blog entry asking "Hey all you people who use github for utf-16
> encoded files, ..."]

People will hate such a flag day event initially and later thank you for it ;-) 

I am afraid that that is a wishful thinking, though.
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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
  18. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2011
  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
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011

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