From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:13:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git archive --format zip utf-8 issues
Message-ID: <7vtxunz3v3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <506082C9.6050604@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> "git 1" is the patch "archive-zip: support UTF-8 paths" added, which
> let's archive-zip make use of the UTF-8 flag.  "git 2" is "git 1" plus
> the patch "archive-zip: declare creator to be Unix for UTF-8
> paths". Both have been posted before.  "git 3" is "git 1" plus the new
> patch "archive-zip: write extended timestamp".
>
> Let's drop patch 2 (Unix as creator) and keep patches 1 (UTF-8 flag)
> and 3 (mtime field) to make archive-zip record non-ASCII filenames in
> a portable way.  It's not perfect, but I don't know how to do any
> better given that Windows' built-in ZIP functionality expects
> filenames in the local code page and with an international audience
> for projects distributing ZIP files.

Thanks.