On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > May we can add new header into commit with commit text encoding ? > > I do not think we want to change the commit header, nor we would > want to re-encode, but I can see two possible improvements: > > (1) git-am should default to -u; this was suggested on the list > long time ago, but is an incompatible change. v1.5.0 we > can afford to be incompatible to make it more usable and > safer. > > (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and > author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_ > set, or set to utf-8. This would be a good thing, both of them actually. The Linux kernel already contains different charsets for author full name and/or commit messages making git-log output a mix of encodings already. And sometimes this inconsistency comes from the _same_ author. Nicolas - 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