Re: Interactive rebase encoding

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 15, 2008, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812151652400.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <85647ef50812150442n48609eadl4f3e47fcc715e643@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Constantine Plotnikov wrote:

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> The interactive rebase command builds a text file and passes it to 
> editor specified as environment variable or as configuration parameter. 
> However the man page for rebase operation says nothing about which 
> encoding will be used for that file. Apparently i18n.logoutputencoding 
> is used.

As rebase -i does nothing else than piping the output of git log into a file (at least this is the first step), I thought it would be obvious that it uses the output encoding preferred by the user.

Indeed, I cannot think of any scenario where it might make sense to have a different encoding in git rebase -i than in git log.

Ciao, Dscho