Re: [PATCH] Reencode committer info to utf-8 before formatting mail header

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] writes:

lördag 13 januari 2007 02:43 skrev Junio C Hamano:

quoted

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 being
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.