Re: specify charset for commits

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 21, 2006, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612211336240.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vejqtaz7q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ?
> 
> I do not think we want to change the commit header, nor we would
> want to re-encode, but I can see two possible improvements:
> 
>  (1) git-am should default to -u; this was suggested on the list
>      long time ago, but is an incompatible change.  v1.5.0 we
>      can afford to be incompatible to make it more usable and
>      safer.
> 
>  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
>      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
>      set, or set to utf-8.

This would be a good thing, both of them actually.

The Linux kernel already contains different charsets for author full name and/or commit messages making git-log output a mix of encodings already. And sometimes this inconsistency comes from the _same_ author.

Nicolas