larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In 107642fe26 ("convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute",
> 2018-04-15) we added an attribute which defines the working tree
> encoding of a file.
>
> Some platforms might spell the name of a certain encoding differently or
> some users might want to use different encodings on different platforms.
> Add the Git config "encoding.<iconv-name>.insteadOf = <alias-name>" to
> support these use-cases with a user specific mapping. If the alias
> matches an existing encoding name, then the alias will take precedence.
> The alias is case insensitive.
>
> Example:
>
> (in .gitattributes)
> *.c working-tree-encoding=foo
>
> (in config)
> [encoding "UTF-16"]
> insteadOf = foo
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Hmph, when I was reading the discussion between you and Peff, I
didn't expect it end up with a change too specific to this single
attribute. I was instead imagining that a change would come closer
to where we call iconv (perhaps we muck with in/out_encoding
parameters to iconv_open()), so that places other than the
working-tree-encoding (e.g. commit log message encoding) would start
honoring the same configuration variable in a consistent way.
