From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:00:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 07/10] convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
Message-ID: <xmqqy3j15b2h.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180309173536.62012-8-lars.schneider@autodesk.com>

lars.schneider@autodesk.com writes:

> +			const char *advise_msg = _(
> +				"The file '%s' contains a byte order "
> +				"mark (BOM). Please use %.6s as "
> +				"working-tree-encoding.");

I know that this will go away in a later step, but why ".6"?

> +			advise(advise_msg, path, enc);