On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:14:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Minor nit, but this is just for diff, so it is not about clean/smudge > > but rather about doing something like textconv. > > I can understand if some tools in the Windows land prefer to work with > these encodings, so clean/smudge to have the checkout in these encodings > would be a reasonable thing not just diff but things like grep. On the > other hand, I do doubt the sanity of these people if they want to have > in-repository representation also in these encodings. I'm pretty much of the same mind. We do have people with utf-16 in their repositories on github. I have no idea why they do such a thing, or what kinds of tricks they do to make it usable (because without it, they just get "binary files differ"). My interest is to make things like bare-repository diff (and everything built on it; i.e., things like github, gitweb, or whatever) do the sane thing for these people, even if I think what they're doing is wrong. And as always, I try to structure the git portions of that as much as possible to be general and help everybody, so they can be pushed upstream (also, then I don't have to worry about managing local changes :) ). But it sounds like this is probably just too ugly and should end up as a github-specific thing. -Peff -- 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