From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:42:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-p4: fix CR LF handling for utf16 files
Message-ID: <xmqq7d4739sy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1294.v2.git.git.1658341065221.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Moritz Baumann via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Moritz Baumann <moritz.baumann@sap.com>
>
> Perforce silently replaces LF with CR LF for "utf16" files if the client
> is a native Windows client. Since git's autocrlf logic does not undo
> this transformation for UTF-16 encoded files, git-p4 replaces CR LF with
> LF during the sync if the file type "utf16" is detected and the Perforce
> client platform indicates that this conversion is performed.
>
> Windows only runs on little-endian architectures, therefore the encoding
> of the byte stream received from the Perforce client is UTF-16-LE and
> the relevant byte sequence is 0D 00 0A 00.
>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Baumann <moritz.baumann@sap.com>
> ---

Will queue.  Thanks.