From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit encoding: store it in commit header rather than mucking with NUL Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:54:47 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7v3b74q1c9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vr6uoo2ow.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 25 23:52:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gyyga-0004Ug-7z for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:52:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754556AbWLYWwj convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:52:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754560AbWLYWwj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:52:39 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56974 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754556AbWLYWwj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Dec 2006 17:52:39 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gyyg7-0005GG-Cf for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:52:19 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-19-121.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.19.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:52:19 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-19-121.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:52:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-19-121.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > I was afraid that there might be something we did (or we did not > do) that encouraged people to have their names (via environment > variables, or perhaps user.name) always in UTF-8 while recording > the log messages in the legacy encoding, and if that kind of use > is already done in the wild, we would end up having to not > reencode the header field but reencode the body. >=20 > But I do not think we ever encouraged encoding names in UTF-8 or > anything else (we did encourage use of UTF-8 in the commit log), > so I think we are Ok. =A0 By the way, it would be nice to have .mailmap like mechanism to tell gi= t that those two (three or more) names are the same comitter and should b= e shown (at least in git-shortlog) as this. This is because some people changed their email, some people have sometimes middle initial and sometimes not, some people have name outside US-ASCII and it is sometim= es broken... --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git