Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> writes: > ... In a perfect world I think I would store > the encoding of a file in the tree object. I didn't pursue that solution > as this would change the Git data model which would open a can of worms > for a problem that not that many people have (almost everyone is on > UTF-8 anyways).
Having that "encoding" trailt recorded in the tree that contains the blob would mean that the same blob can be recorded with one "encoding" trait in a tree, and in a different tree it can be recorded with a different "encoding" trait. I doubt it really makes sense.
