From: Tzadik Vanderhoof <tzadik.vanderhoof@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:29:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Add git-p4.fallbackEncoding
Message-ID: <CAKu1iLWUZqRu5fpGxdwLKjMwRCexcFJdz+uxo+AF3u32W4dOtQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <179cd4f0-def6-1b3a-2802-139b19d3301d@diamand.org>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 1:36 AM Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> wrote:
>
> I think Andrew Oakley pointed this out earlier - but in the days of
> Python2 this was (I think) never a problem. Python2 just took in the
> binary data, in whatever encoding, and passed it untouched on to git,
> which in turn just stored it.
>

Unfortunately, I just became aware yesterday that Andrew Oakley was
also working on this issue (his CC to me 2 weeks ago somehow ended up
in my Spam folder, and I only dug it out of there after finding out
that we both created a test with the same number).

When I first became aware of Andrew's work (yesterday), I thought it
would make mine unnecessary, but upon further investigation, I don't
think Andrew's work will solve this problem.  Please see my reply
yesterday to Andew's thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAKu1iLXRrsB4mRsDfhBH5aahWzDjpfqLuWP9t47RMB=RdpL1iA@mail.gmail.com