Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] convert: add support for different encodings

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So a full proposal would support both cases: "check this out in the
> local platform's preferred encoding" and "always check this out in
> _this_ encoding". And Lars's proposal is just the second half of that.

Actually, what you seem to take as a whole is just half of the
story.  The other half that is an ability to say "what is in the
repository for this path is stored in this encoding".  I agree that
"check it out in this encoding" is a useful thing to have, and using
the in-tree .gitattributes as a place to state the project-wide
preference may be OK (and .git/info/attributes should be able to
override it if needed -- this probably deserves to be added to a
test somewhere by this series).

Luckily, lack of 'in-repository-encoding' attribute is not a show
stopper for this series.  A later topic could start with "earlier,
in order to make use of w-t-e attribute, you had to have your
contents in UTF-8.  Teach the codepath to honor a new attribute that
tells in what encoding the blob contents are stored." without having
to be a part of this topic.