From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:22:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181220350.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511182208.24248.ismail@uludag.org.tr>



On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> 
> > And git guys, please start to think again about your insane options,
> > that cause more harm than anything good.
> 
> Can git maintainer(s) comment on this please? 

It's easy to say "just do the right thing", and ignore reality.

git commit logs have always been "8-bit data". It's actually gitweb that 
is buggy if it claims it is UTF-8 without checking or converting it to 
such.

I agree that UTF-8 is a good idea, but that's a totally different 
argument.

		Linus