From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:07:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages
Message-ID: <7vr51xwyg7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <buo39edao6r.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.