David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Only if size_t is a larger type than int (could be on x86-64 and alpha > architectures). Other than that, this comparison would work. Which > does not mean that this does not warrant fixing, but it is not > necessarily the cause of this problem. ...sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(int) should hold... Anyway, if this has any relevance: I'm using non-utf system, and (as you see) my surname has ä... The system was recently upgraded to git 1.5+ which started to complain also about a missing i18n.commitencoding, figured out that when I set it to utf8 (empty => defaults to it) and have signed-off line (with native non-utf ä), I get that error... ...and please, do not drop me from cc since I'm not subscribed... -- i.