On Wed, Mar 28 2018, Junio C. Hamano wrote: > * ls/checkout-encoding (2018-03-16) 10 commits > - convert: add round trip check based on 'core.checkRoundtripEncoding' > - convert: add tracing for 'working-tree-encoding' attribute > - convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings > - convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute > - utf8: add function to detect a missing UTF-16/32 BOM > - utf8: add function to detect prohibited UTF-16/32 BOM > - utf8: teach same_encoding() alternative UTF encoding names > - strbuf: add a case insensitive starts_with() > - strbuf: add xstrdup_toupper() > - strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower() > > The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the > contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working > tree (and the other way around when checking in). There's an issue in ca16fc3635 ("convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings", 2018-03-15) flagged by Coverity: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kbAOcwaRzjuMtZ_HVsYvUr_7UAPbOcnrmPgsdE19q=PrQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/