Re: Should the --encoding argument to log/show commands make any guarantees about their output?

2015-06-17 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
On 17.06.2015 18:42, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jan-Philip Gehrcke writes: I was surprised to see that the output of git log --encoding=utf-8 "--format=format:%b" can contain byte sequences that are invalid in UTF-8. Note: I am using git 2.1.4 and the %b format specifier repr

Re: Should the --encoding argument to log/show commands make any guarantees about their output?

2015-06-16 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
On 15.06.2015 18:21, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: On 2015-06-15 10.50, Jan-Philip Gehrcke wrote: Let me describe what I think it currently does: The program attempts to re-code a log message, so it follows the chain raw input -> unicode -> raw output Not sure what "raw i

Should the --encoding argument to log/show commands make any guarantees about their output?

2015-06-15 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
larify what actually happens behind the scenes. What do you think? Cheers, Jan-Philip Gehrcke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html