Re: specify charset for commits

[Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com>]

> I do not think we want to change the commit header
Can you please explain why not ?

>  (1) git-am should default to -u; this was suggested on the list
>      long time ago, but is an incompatible change.  v1.5.0 we
>      can afford to be incompatible to make it more usable and
>      safer.
I use git-am rarely so can't comment on this

>  (2) update commit-tree to reject non utf-8 log messages and
>      author/committer names when i18n.commitEncoding is _NOT_
>      set, or set to utf-8.
>
>      Maybe later we can use encoding validation routines for
>      other encodings by checking i18n.commitEncoding, but at the
>      minimum the above would be safe enough for recommended UTF-8
>      only cases.
See the situation:
1. I have utf-8 encoded repo.
2. Somebody clone my repo, try to commit using non-utf-8 encoding, fail and 
change i18n.commitEncoding. When it commits something and ask me to pull.
3. I pull and got non-utf-8 commit message :-)