Re: [PATCH 2/3] hooks/post-receive-email: force log messages in UTF-8

[Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Git commands write commit messages in UTF-8 by default, but that
> default can be overridden by the [i18n] commitEncoding and
> logOutputEncoding settings.  With such a setting, the emails written
> by the post-receive-email hook use a mixture of encodings:
> 
>  1. Log messages use the configured log output encoding, which is
>     meant to be whatever encoding works best with local terminals
>     (and does not have much to do with what encoding should be used
>     for email)
> 
>  2. Filenames are left as is: on Linux, usually UTF-8, and in the Mingw
>     port (which uses Unicode filesystem APIs), always UTF-8
I cannot say exactly if it makes sense for THIS patch, but I'd like to
remind about Cygwin port, which definitely does not use UTF-8 encoding
(in my case it is Windows-1251) for filenames.
> 
>  3. The "This is an automated email" preface uses a project description
>     from .git/description, which is typically in UTF-8 to support
>     gitweb.
> 
> So (1) is configurable, and (2) and (3) are unconfigurable and
> typically UTF-8.  Override the log output encoding to always use UTF-8
> when writing the email to get the best chance of a comprehensible
> single-encoding email.
I cannot agree to receive e-mails in UTF-8 only for Windows projects
which have non-UTF-8 encoding. I want to see and read correctly formed
e-mail without any corrupted symbols instead of filenames (that is the
main problem here as far as filenames are not converted unlike log
messages)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> ---
>  contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> index 72084511..ba93a0d8 100755
> --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ generate_delete_branch_email()
>  	echo "       was  $oldrev"
>  	echo ""
>  	echo $LOGBEGIN
> -	git diff-tree -s --always --pretty=oneline $oldrev
> +	git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
>  	echo $LOGEND
>  }
>  
> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ generate_delete_atag_email()
>  	echo "       was  $oldrev"
>  	echo ""
>  	echo $LOGBEGIN
> -	git diff-tree -s --always --pretty=oneline $oldrev
> +	git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
>  	echo $LOGEND
>  }
>  
> @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ generate_general_email()
>  	echo ""
>  	if [ "$newrev_type" = "commit" ]; then
>  		echo $LOGBEGIN
> -		git diff-tree -s --always --pretty=medium $newrev
> +		git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=medium $newrev
>  		echo $LOGEND
>  	else
>  		# What can we do here?  The tag marks an object that is not
> @@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ generate_delete_general_email()
>  	echo "       was  $oldrev"
>  	echo ""
>  	echo $LOGBEGIN
> -	git diff-tree -s --always --pretty=oneline $oldrev
> +	git diff-tree -s --always --encoding=UTF-8 --pretty=oneline $oldrev
>  	echo $LOGEND
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.4.rc1
> 

-- 
Alexey Shumkin