Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2018, 19:41 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk1vc67tb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180216192727.GA23249@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> In which case yeah, I could see choosing an in-repo encoding to possibly
> be useful (but it also seems like a feature that could easily be tacked
> on later if somebody cares).

Yes, I think we are on the same page---in-repo-encoding that is a natural counterpart to w-t-e attribute can be added later if/when somebody finds it useful, and it is perfectly OK to declare that we cater only to UTF-8 users until that happens.

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