> Okay, so something that checks text files to see if they're utf... > "core.autoutf", anyone? This (and crlf-conversion, for that matter) strikes me as something best handled outside of git core, such as through checkout/commit hooks. Perhaps examples of such hooks could be provided and adapted by each project and user as that user/project sees fit for their specific choice of repository format and development environment. Given that git already chose not to screw around with encodings or define a canonical encoding for the on-disk format (it's just a string of bytes), it would be consistent and reasonable to not mess with these other things, too. Tait -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html