# Recoding of {git,cg}-log output 4 messages from 2006-02-27 to 2006-02-27. Participants: Krzysiek Pawlik, Johannes Schindelin, Petr Baudis. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3472 ## Krzysiek Pawlik, 2006-02-27 00:10 Subject: Recoding of {git,cg}-log output Message-ID: <44024384.4060406@people.pl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/44024384.4060406%40people.pl ``` First: a little "why": having /usr/bin/vim as PAGER allows to enter UTF-8 commit messages quite easily, the problem is when git-log (or cg-log) is run in terminal that's not UTF-8. In my case: terminal is ISO-8859-2 and: nelchael@nelchael ~$ cat ~/.vimrc | grep gitci au BufRead /tmp/gitci* setlocal textwidth=75 fileencoding=utf-8 encoding=utf-8 fileencodings=utf-8,default So... having {git,cg}-log recode the log entires when displaying is quite useful. Two patches attached: a. git-log-recode.patch - uses iconv to recode the log output to GIT_LOG_RECODE encoding b. cg-log-recode.patch - the same, but for cogito With this patches it's possible to write UTF-8 commit messages and see them ok in non-UTF-8 terminal in log by having GIT_LOG_RECODE=iso-8859-2. Comments? -- Krzysiek Pawlik (Nelchael) RLU #322999 GPG Key ID: 0xBC555551 --- /usr/bin/cg-log 2006-01-19 17:22:22.000000000 +0100 +++ bin/cg-log 2006-02-27 00:59:07.000000000 +0100 @@ -348,13 +348,21 @@ if [ "$shortlog" ]; then # Special care here. - $revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | git-shortlog | pager + if [ -n "${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" ]; then + $revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | git-shortlog | iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code="${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" | pager + else + $revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | git-shortlog | pager + fi exit fi # LESS="S" will prevent less to wrap too long titles to multiple lines; # you can scroll horizontally. -$revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | print_commit_log | _local_CG_LESS="S" pager +if [ -n "${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" ]; then + $revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | print_commit_log | iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code="${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" | _local_CG_LESS="S" pager +else + $revls $sep "${ARGS[@]}" | print_commit_log | _local_CG_LESS="S" pager +fi exit 0 --- /usr/bin/git-log 2006-02-23 18:31:32.000000000 +0100 +++ bin/git-log 2006-02-27 00:47:34.000000000 +0100 @@ -11,5 +11,11 @@ [ "$revs" ] || { die "No HEAD ref" } -git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | -LESS=-S ${PAGER:-less} +if [ -n "${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" ]; then + git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | \ + iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code="${GIT_LOG_RECODE}" | \ + LESS=-S ${PAGER:-less} +else + git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | \ + LESS=-S ${PAGER:-less} +fi ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2006-02-27 00:36 Subject: Re: Recoding of {git,cg}-log output Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0602270133330.5275%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: <44024384.4060406@people.pl> ``` Hi, On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: > First: a little "why": having /usr/bin/vim as PAGER allows to enter > UTF-8 commit messages quite easily, the problem is when git-log (or > cg-log) is run in terminal that's not UTF-8. Of course, you could always set up a script doing the recoding and the paging, like -- snip -- #!/bin/sh iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-2 "$@" | vim -- snap -- and point your PAGER to that script (which is untested BTW). The advantage of this approach compared to adjusting git is that other programs use PAGER, too. Hth, Dscho ``` ## Krzysiek Pawlik, 2006-02-27 00:50 Subject: Re: Recoding of {git,cg}-log output Message-ID: <44024CC6.8010401@people.pl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/44024CC6.8010401%40people.pl In-Reply-To: ``` Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Of course, you could always set up a script doing the recoding and > the paging, like No. > The advantage of this approach compared to adjusting git is that > other programs use PAGER, too. Passing code (web pages, etc) throught iconv is not a good idea - {git,cg}-diff should show the file content as it is, not altered by iconv. Changing PAGER is a bit... ugly and messy way of doing it. Assume that I work on some files and want to look at some unversioned files outside the tree (like docs, man pages, whatever) and the $PAGER passes the legitimate ISO8859-2 files through iconv, what gives us garbage. And we end up changing pager very often - Bad Idea (TM). -- Krzysiek Pawlik (Nelchael) RLU #322999 GPG Key ID: 0xBC555551 ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2006-02-27 01:26 Subject: Re: Recoding of {git,cg}-log output Message-ID: <20060227012656.GX31278@pasky.or.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060227012656.GX31278%40pasky.or.cz In-Reply-To: <44024384.4060406@people.pl> ``` Dear diary, on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:10:44AM CET, I got a letter where Krzysiek Pawlik said that... > > First: a little "why": having /usr/bin/vim as PAGER allows to enter > UTF-8 commit messages quite easily, the problem is when git-log (or > cg-log) is run in terminal that's not UTF-8. In my case: terminal is > ISO-8859-2 and: > > nelchael@nelchael ~$ cat ~/.vimrc | grep gitci > au BufRead /tmp/gitci* setlocal textwidth=75 fileencoding=utf-8 > encoding=utf-8 fileencodings=utf-8,default Wouldn't it be enough to also set termencoding? > So... having {git,cg}-log recode the log entires when displaying is > quite useful. Two patches attached: > > a. git-log-recode.patch - uses iconv to recode the log output to > GIT_LOG_RECODE encoding > b. cg-log-recode.patch - the same, but for cogito > > With this patches it's possible to write UTF-8 commit messages and see > them ok in non-UTF-8 terminal in log by having GIT_LOG_RECODE=iso-8859-2. > > Comments? Not opposed in principle. But it would be much more sensible to have something like $GIT_META_ENCODING (defaulting probably to utf8), recode to whatever is your current locale, have the appropriate setting in the configfile, ... -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Of the 3 great composers Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. -- Douglas Adams ```