From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:50:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-commit-tree: if i18n.commitencoding is utf-8 (default), check it Message-ID: <7vy7ozwqf5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Now, git-commit-tree refuses to commit when i18n.commitencoding is > either unset, or set to "utf-8", and the commit message does not > minimally conform to the UTF-8 encoding. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > > Unfortunately, I could not think of a shorter oneline description. > But my next patch fixes at least the output in shortlog. I think the rule that you described on the one-line description makes more sense than "either unset of set to utf-8". In other words, I'd prefer doing this in a repository that explicitly asks for it. I do not want to get burned by too many incompatible changes X-<.