From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:25:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511181520390.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <437E51EB.7050100@zytor.com>



On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Similarly, it may not be a bad idea to add an *option* -- now when we have a
> config file mechanism -- to signal error on invalid UTF-8 import.  This would
> keep a correct UTF-8 repository from getting inadvertently messed up.

This I agree with, btw. We could easily have a

	[core]
		utf=1

thing, and make git-commit-tree refuse to commit a non-UTF8 message.

Of course, you could equally easily (more so?) make it just a commit 
trigger instead, which might well be the right thing.

(And that still leaves the question open what to do about patches and 
pulls, but if people mainly worry about newly written commit messages 
itself, then at least that part is unambiguous).

		Linus