When 'commitencoding' variable is set in config file then git-rev-list called with --header option sends also the encoding information. $ git rev-list --header -n1 HEAD 6d751699cb04150abd79a730187d4e2ed6330c05 tree 70209eebdc59d108948feb15c3c5497f299ef290 parent 49a8186d7352d0454df79b289fecb18c8e535c32 author Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> 1167500660 +0100 committer Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> 1167500660 +0100 encoding UTF-8 Test commit Let's see what git-rev-list --header spits out. Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> $ git --version git version 1.5.0.rc0.g1ed48 This is very unfortunate because qgit parsing routine it's totally broken after this change. Please revert the patch, or at least make git-rev-list --header quiet as default, IOW add an option --show-encoding that defaults to disabled. Sorry to ask you this but _all_ the qgit users out there will see a broken main view revision's list for all the commits created after the patch went in. Thanks Marco - 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