Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] convert: add alias support for 'working-tree-encoding' attributes

larsxschneider@gmail.com writes:

From: Lars Schneider <redacted>

In 107642fe26 ("convert: add 'working-tree-encoding' attribute",
2018-04-15) we added an attribute which defines the working tree
encoding of a file.

Some platforms might spell the name of a certain encoding differently or
some users might want to use different encodings on different platforms.
Add the Git config "encoding.<iconv-name>.insteadOf = <alias-name>" to
support these use-cases with a user specific mapping. If the alias
matches an existing encoding name, then the alias will take precedence.
The alias is case insensitive.

Example:

	(in .gitattributes)
	*.c	working-tree-encoding=foo

	(in config)
	[encoding "UTF-16"]
		insteadOf = foo

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <redacted>
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Hmph, when I was reading the discussion between you and Peff, I
didn't expect it end up with a change too specific to this single
attribute.  I was instead imagining that a change would come closer
to where we call iconv (perhaps we muck with in/out_encoding
parameters to iconv_open()), so that places other than the
working-tree-encoding (e.g. commit log message encoding) would start
honoring the same configuration variable in a consistent way.