Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I do not think we are talking about right or wrong. I was primarily saying that textconv may not be the right thing (think github/gitweb showing blob contents, nicely formatted inside the chrome the site provides). The solution you suggested feels like a gross layering violation, unless we do it everywhere, in which case I wouldn't mind too much. We have in-repository representation that diff and grep and friends work on, and output conversion layer that externalizes the result of them in the form of "smudge". Another layer above the in-repository representation and below operations could convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 when going outward and in the opposite when going inward. -- 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