From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1401FAE2 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751799AbeB0V6s (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:48 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:39492 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751789AbeB0V6s (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:48 -0500 Received: (qmail 9217 invoked by uid 109); 27 Feb 2018 21:58:48 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:58:48 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 27874 invoked by uid 111); 27 Feb 2018 21:59:36 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:59:36 -0500 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:46 -0500 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Torsten =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= , Lars Schneider , Lars Schneider , git , Johannes Sixt , Eric Sunshine , ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings Message-ID: <20180227215845.GA11187@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <19EDC192-0D83-4762-AC6A-81F7D693475A@gmail.com> <20180226014445.GB8677@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180226173533.GA7877@tor.lan> <20180226204635.GB12598@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20180227210517.GA17555@tor.lan> <20180227212537.GA6899@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:55:02PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > Of the three solutions, I think the relative merits are something like > > this: > > ... > > 3. w-t-e (Lars's patch) > > I thought Lars's w-t-e was about keeping the in-repo contents in > UTF-8 and externalize in whatever encoding (e.g. UTF-16), so it > won't help the issue hosting folks want to deal with, i.e. showing > in-repo data that is stored in a strange binary-looking encoding in > a more reasonable encodign while diffing, no? I thought it solved that by the hosting folks never seeing the strange binary-looking data. They see only utf8, which diffs well. -Peff