Re: [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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- Dec 18, 2017, 21:55 UTC
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Am 18.12.2017 um 11:13 schrieb Torsten Bögershausen:
> Just to confirm my missing knowledge here: > Does this mean, that git-gui and gitk can decode/reencode > the content of a file/blob, when the .gitattributes say so ?
No. I think they parse the output of git-diff et.al., split it per file, and then consult .gitattributes to interpret the byte sequence according to the encoding.
-- Hannes