Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] support UTF-8 in alias names

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2026, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpl6061k2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260218215737.1181147-1-jonatan@jontes.page>

Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes.page> writes:

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> Hi all!
>
> This series adds support for non-alphanumeric (including UTF-8)
> characters in alias names by allowing aliases to be defined using
> git-config's subsection syntax.
>
> Changes since v6:
> Reverted the --aliases-for-completion output format to
> use a newline as the field separator between name and value within
> each NUL-terminated record (name\nvalue\0). In v6 I changed this
> to use NUL for both separators, but this diverges from the
> convention established by git config -z, which outputs
> key\nvalue\0. Matching that convention is the right call here.

OK. The key cannot have NUL nor LF in it, so either _should_ work, and using LF in the context of -z somehow makes our eyes feel dirty, but it is how "git config -z" chooses to work, so I agree that this change makes sense.

Shall we mark this topic ready for 'next' now?

Will queue.  Thanks.