On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Shreyansh Paliwal [off-list ref] writes:

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Yeah, that was a bit confusing for me until I got used to it. Maybe
saying “[default: UTF-8]” would be a small and definite improvement?

The current message can be mistaken, if the reader does not READ, if
it is asking a yes/no question, but with the "default" label, you
cannot imagine answering "yes", which is clearly not one of the
things in the same class as "UTF-8" that is given as the default,
which also serves as an example.

This is indeed a clever hack (not hack on computer code but hack on
the mind of human who is reading the message).

Yep. I've seen it somewhere before; I thought it was from Portage's
emerge in "ask" mode, but checking that doesn't seem to be the case.

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D. Ben Knoble