On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:10:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I thought it solved that by the hosting folks never seeing the strange > > binary-looking data. They see only utf8, which diffs well. > > Ah, OK, that is a "fix" in a wider context (in a narrower context, > "work around" is a more appropriate term ;-). > > The reason why I have been nudging people toward considering in-repo > encoding attribute is because forcing projects that already have > their contents in a strange binary-looking encoding to switch is > costly. But perhaps having them pay one-time conversion pain is a > better investment longer term. Yeah, thanks for mentioning that. It should have gone in my "relative merits" list. The conversion flag-day is definitely going to be a pain for users, and doesn't help with diffing older versions. -Peff
