On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:13:30PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This makes empty bodies truly empty, and fills in the > > default UTF-8 encoding for an empty encoding. > > I do not think the latter is correct. Replacing with an empty > string might make sense, although I haven't thought through the > issues. Fair enough. I originally put in an empty string, but tried to be (too) clever with UTF-8 (I was under the impression that commits without headers were assumed to be in UTF-8, unless there is some legacy override set). I'm fine with whatever makes sense, but I think printing <unknown> is silly: we _do_ know. -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