Thx jeff, i will try it tomorrow. > Am 24.07.2017 um 22:32 schrieb Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:26:22PM +0200, tonka3100@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish. If you're unhappy >>> with the file as utf-16, then you should probably convert to utf-8 as a >>> single commit (since the diff will otherwise be unreadable) and then >>> make further changes in utf-8. > >> That was exactly what i'm searching for. The utf-16 back in the days >> was by accident (thx to visual studio). So if the last commit and the >> acutal change are both utf-8 the diff should work again. Just for my >> understanding. Git just take the bytes of the whole file on every >> commit, so there is no general problem with that, the size of the >> utf-16 is just twice as big as the utf-8 one, is that correct? > > Right. The diff switching the encodings will be listed as "binary" (and > you should write a good commit message explaining what's going on!), but > then after that the changes to the utf-8 version will display as normal > text. Git only looks at the actual bytes being diffed, not older > versions of the file. > > -Peff
