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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:

> l=F6rdag 13 januari 2007 02:43 skrev Junio C Hamano:
>> Side note.  The previous patch does not help if your commit were
>> made in non UTF-8 with not too recent git; the code assumes that
>> commit messages without the new "encoding" headers are in UTF-8.
>
> Wasn't there a repository option, "commitencoding"?  I can't see it b=
eing
> used here.

commitencoding is about what encoding the commit newly created
in this repository right now should claim to have -- in other
words what is fed to commit-tree.

We are talking about examining existing commit that might have
come from another repository or created some time ago when the
repository configuration was set differently.