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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Andrey Bienkowski <hexagonrecursion@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 10:54:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGx2EMHnwXWbp4ET@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAunPhfjUSO0Po4sO7Hwxjq7_p0ke7VOD=XRizG1Fqkzymcgmg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:20:45PM +0000, Andrey Bienkowski wrote:

> Hi. I want to parse the output of git diff --name-only and git diff
> --name-status, but the documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff
> does not say what encoding it is in. Is it always utf8 on all
> platforms? If not is there a flag to make it so? Once I get an answer
> to this question I'll submit a PR to add the missing documentation.

There's some discussion in Documentation/i18n.txt, which is included in
various manpages (e.g., https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_discussion)
but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in git-diff.

The short answer is: mostly utf8, but historically on platforms that
don't care (like Linux) you could get away with other encodings.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06 12:20 Subject: Encoding of git diff --name-only stdout Andrey Bienkowski
2021-04-06 14:54 ` Jeff King [this message]

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