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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mailinfo: allow -u to fall back on latin1 to utf8 conversion.
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:21:26 -0800
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> When the message body does not identify what encoding it is in,
>> -u assumes it is in latin-1 and converts it to utf8, which is
>> the recommended encoding for git commit log messages.
>> With -u=<encoding>, the conversion is made into the specified
>> one, instead of utf8, to allow project-local policies.
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>
> -u= is very odd syntax.

Fair enough.  "--encoding=<encoding>" then.

> Incidentally, any reason we're not using getopt_long() for command-line 
> parsing?

There was a talk about using popt a while back but we never got
around to it, primarily because we were running too fast for
parties interested in command line parsing clean-ups to catch
up.  I think we are almost done and immediately post 1.0 when
things stabilize may be a good time to do it if somebody wants
to go wild, but not before please.