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Re: Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 6, 2021, 14:54 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Andrey Bienkowski wrote:
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> Hi. I want to parse the output of git diff --name-only and git diff
> --name-status, but the documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff
> does not say what encoding it is in. Is it always utf8 on all
> platforms? If not is there a flag to make it so? Once I get an answer
> to this question I'll submit a PR to add the missing documentation.

There's some discussion in Documentation/i18n.txt, which is included in various manpages (e.g., https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_discussion) but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in git-diff.

The short answer is: mostly utf8, but historically on platforms that don't care (like Linux) you could get away with other encodings.

-Peff
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  1. Andrey BienkowskiApr 6, 2021
  2. Jeff KingApr 6, 2021

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