From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: specify charset for commits (Was: [PATCH] Fix documentation copy&paste typo) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:52:12 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <11655782712452-git-send-email-zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <20061221085907.GA2244@cepheus> <200612211623.14236.litvinov2004@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 21 11:49:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxLUs-0001kH-9Z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:49:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWLUKtz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:49:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964777AbWLUKtz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:49:55 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50877 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWLUKty (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:49:54 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GxLUg-0004Ed-6m for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:49:46 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.25.107]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:49:46 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:49:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-25-107.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alexander Litvinov wrote: >>> What do you think about a patch that makes git-commit-tree call iconv on >>> its input to get it to UTF-8 (or any other charset). >> >> We had this discussion over and over again. Last time (I think) was here: >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/11710 >> Summary: we do not want to force the use of utf8. > > May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ? I think it should be repository-wide decision. And we have i18n.commitEncoding configuration variable (perhaps it should be propagated on clone?). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git