On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:09:51PM +0100, Andrew Molyneux wrote: > Encoding name was erroneously documented as UTF-16-LE-BOM; this should > in fact be UTF-16LE-BOM (no hyphen between '16' and 'LE'). > --- > Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > index 9b41f81c06..bdd11a2ddd 100644 > --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt > @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ automatic line ending conversion based on your platform. > > Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little > endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings > -in the working directory (use `UTF-16-LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if > +in the working directory (use `UTF-16LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if > you want UTF-16 little endian with BOM). > Please note, it is highly recommended to > explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding` > -- > 2.21.0.windows.1 > Thanks for the patch. I think that patch 1/2 is in upstream Git, and even in git-for-windows/master - on which codebase are you ? commit e6e15194a85af68db9f9ce076eb32c47e7063b3c gitattributes.txt: fix typo `UTF-16-LE-BOM` to `UTF-16LE-BOM`. this closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2095 Signed-off-by: Yash Bhatambare <ybhatambare@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> [snip] -in the working directory (use `UTF-16-LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if +in the working directory (use `UTF-16LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if Patch 2/2 makes sense and cleans up my mess.