On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:22:56PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 03:40:55PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > > If that is it, then I believe git should "do the right thing" when > > generating patches. I've noticed that it progressively sets the encoding > > based on the minimum required to encode the characters in the patch. > > The last line of your diffoscope shows that Pjotr's patch was encoded > in iso-8559-1, while all the scheme files in guix are in utf-8. It seems > quite clear to me that this is the reason for our problems. And apparently, > the git version plays a role in this.
I think the old version of git must play a role, or every patch with a copyright attribution line would fail to apply.
