From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: Native clean/smudge filter for UTF-16 files
Message-ID: <xmqqy3mvks0v.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171124180401.GB29190@sigill>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So anyway, that is an alternate strategy, but I think I like "canonical
> in-repo text is utf-8" approach a lot more, since then git operations
> work consistently. There are still a few rough edges (e.g., I'm not sure

Sounds like a good way forward.

> if you could apply a utf-8 patch directly to a utf-16 working tree file.
> Certainly not using "patch", but I'm not sure how well "git apply" would
> handle that case either). But I think it would mostly Just Work as long
> as people were willing to set their encoding attributes.

It should work (or fail) just like applying LF patch to CRLF working
tree, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Thanks.