From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Non-ASCII paths and git-cvsserver Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:30:18 +0100 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200611131930.18300.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <45530CEE.6030008@b-i-t.de> <45587A09.3020605@b-i-t.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjgYL-0007r2-3X for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:29:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755318AbWKMS2m convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:28:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755319AbWKMS2m (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:28:42 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:3665 "EHLO torino.dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755318AbWKMS2l convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:28:41 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17574800784; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:25:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from torino.dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21613-06; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:25:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.2] (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by torino.dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A858003E1; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:25:08 +0100 (CET) To: Jakub Narebski Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org m=E5ndag 13 november 2006 15:20 skrev Jakub Narebski: > sf wrote: > > Thanks, Junio. Paths with umlauts are returned correctly now both i= n > > UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. I guess git-cvsserver is now as encoding agno= stic > > as git core. > > By the way, now that git has per user config file, ~/.gitconfig, perh= aps > it is time to add i18n.filesystemEncoding configuration variable, to > automatically convert between filesystem encoding (somthing you usual= ly > don't have any control over) and UTF-8 encoding of paths in tree obje= cts. I'd prefer git to store filenames and comments in UTF-8 and convert on=20 input/output when and if it is necessary rather than forcing everybody = to=20 take the hit. Most systems, but far from all, already use UTF-8 so it's= a=20 noop for them. The only reason I want conversion is for the years to co= me=20 where we still live in two worlds of non-utf-8 and utf-8 and then forge= t=20 about everything non-utf-8, rather than carry around the baggage foreve= r.