On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:51 AM Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since git supports commit messages with an encoding other than utf-8, > allow fast-import to import such commits. This may be useful for folks > who do not want to reencode commit messages from an external system, and > may also be useful to achieve reversible history rewrites (e.g. sha1sum > <-> sha256sum transitions or subtree work) with git repositories that > have used specialized encodings in their commit history. > > Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c > @@ -2607,6 +2608,9 @@ static void parse_new_commit(const char *arg) > if (!committer) > die("Expected committer but didn't get one"); > + if (skip_prefix(command_buf.buf, "encoding ", &encoding)) { > + read_next_command(); > + } Style nit: unnecessary braces > @@ -2670,9 +2674,13 @@ static void parse_new_commit(const char *arg) > strbuf_addf(&new_data, > "author %s\n" > - "committer %s\n" > - "\n", > + "committer %s\n", > author ? author : committer, committer); > + if (encoding) > + strbuf_addf(&new_data, > + "encoding %s\n", > + encoding); > + strbuf_addf(&new_data, "\n"); Alternately: strbuf_addch(&new_data, '\n'); > diff --git a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh > @@ -3299,4 +3299,24 @@ test_expect_success !MINGW 'W: get-mark & empty orphan commit with erroneous thi > +test_expect_success 'X: handling encoding' ' > + test_tick && > + [...] > + git cat-file -p encoding | grep $(printf "\360") && > + git log -1 --format=%B encoding | grep $(printf "\317\200") This script is already full of instances of Git commands upstream of pipes, so this usage is consistent (despite recent work to eliminate such situations). Okay.