Re: Rss produced by git is not valid xml?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:22:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > 
> > > And git guys, please start to think again about your insane options,
> > > that cause more harm than anything good.
> > 
> > Can git maintainer(s) comment on this please? 
> 
> It's easy to say "just do the right thing", and ignore reality.

Well the reality tells that everything that is successful does not give
too many options that harm adoption. For me it's a very simple and "real"
rule.

It's all about a sane default, which git obviously doesn't have. You
guys may look at it from the very low level, but that isn't what I call
"reality".

> git commit logs have always been "8-bit data". It's actually gitweb that 
> is buggy if it claims it is UTF-8 without checking or converting it to 
> such.

Actually, the real bug is not to try to prevent binary nonsense in textual
commit logs, which are distibuted. Remember, that you provide a SCM not a
filesystem.

> I agree that UTF-8 is a good idea, but that's a totally different 
> argument.

Well, I don't see real arguments against sane a default.

Thanks,
Kay