Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #05; Wed, 28)

> On 30 Mar 2018, at 11:24, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 28 2018, Junio C. Hamano wrote:
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>> * ls/checkout-encoding (2018-03-16) 10 commits
>> - convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding'
>> - convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
>> - convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
>> - convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute
>> - utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM
>> - utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM
>> - utf8: teach same_encoding() alternative UTF encoding names
>> - strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with()
>> - strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper()
>> - strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
>> 
>> The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
>> contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
>> tree (and the other way around when checking in).
> 
> There's an issue in ca16fc3635 ("convert: check for detectable errors in
> UTF encodings", 2018-03-15) flagged by Coverity:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kbAOcwaRzjuMtZ_HVsYvUr_7UAPbOcnrmPgsdE19q=PrQ@mail.gmail.com/