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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: zapped@mail.ru
Cc: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] post-receive-email: explicitly set Content-Type header
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:23:03 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34o07s8sx.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920104256.GA11656@zapped.homeip.net>

Shumkin Alexey <zapped@mail.ru> writes:
> [ resent to mailing list ]
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:32:54AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > Am 9/20/2011 10:07, schrieb Alexey Shumkin:
[...]
> > > +# hooks.emailcharset
> > > +#   The charset used in Content-Type header. UTF-8, if not
> > > specified.
> > 
> > How can you be sure that the output produced by git log etc. that are
> > used in the script are in the encoding specified by this variable?
> > IOW, wouldn't log.outputencoding be the better choice to use in the
> > Content-Type header?
>
> Yes, you're right, we cannot be sure in UTF-8 encoding of output
> and using i18n.logoutputencoding would be a better choice
> instead of new config variable.
> 
> But at the present
> 1. post-send-mail uses description file of a repo
> 2. gitweb also uses this file and AFAIK it assumes one to be in UTF-8
>   (I do not know whether it can be changed there but I tested gitweb once long
>     time ago)

I have thought that gitweb uses '--encoding=utf8' explicitly, but as I
have checked it uses this only for git-format-patch invocation in
'patch' / 'patches' views.  Should be fixed.

-- 
Jakub Narębski

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-20  7:52 [PATCH] post-receive-email: explicitly set Content-Type header Alexey Shumkin
2011-09-20  8:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Shumkin
2011-09-20  9:32   ` Johannes Sixt
2011-09-20 10:42     ` Shumkin Alexey
2011-09-20 11:10       ` Johannes Sixt
2011-10-07  9:06         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-07 12:52           ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-10-07 20:19             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-09 11:00               ` [PATCH v3] " Alexey Shumkin
2011-11-09 14:11                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-09 15:01                   ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-09-20 12:23       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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