Hi, On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Side note. The previous patch does not help if your commit were > made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that > commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8. Why not just use is_utf8() and warn, or error out, if the message is not UTF-8? (I tend towards the erroring out, since this _is_ a new feature, and gives undesired results with "old" commits.) Ciao, Dscho - 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