I would like to see a possibility to force encoding for the "git commit" command. Currently only way to change encoding used by "git commit" is to set "i18n.commitencoding" configuration variable. But there is no way to override this variable for the specific commit like it is possible for "show" and "log" commands.
This would be useful when git is invoked from the tools. Currently tools have to query configuration variable and to encode message according to the value of the variable. And it might happen that not all characters produced by tool are supported by target encoding. Forcing the encoding, would have allowed the tool use the suitable encoding without changing user preferences.
Regards, Constantine