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Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Oct 28, 2011, 01:40 UTC
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<20111027234429.GA28187@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> We do have people with utf-16 in their repositories on github. I
> have no idea why they do such a thing, or what kinds of tricks they
> do to make it usable (because without it, they just get "binary
> files differ").

Hmm, you could ask them ... [or, I suppose more diplomatically, post a blog entry asking "Hey all you people who use github for utf-16 encoded files, ..."]

-Miles
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