Re: [JGIT PATCH 2/2] Add getPatchText functions to obtain the plain-text version of a patch

lördag 13 december 2008 03:42:26 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:

The conversion from byte[] to String is performed one line at a time,
in case the patch is a character encoding conversion patch for the
file.  For simplicity we currently assume UTF-8 still as the default
encoding for any content, but eventually we should support using the
.gitattributes encoding property when performing this conversion.

For usefulness we must be able to pass the encoding from outside, 
e.g. the encoding Eclipse uses, which often is not UTF-8-

-- robin