Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > So a full proposal would support both cases: "check this out in the > local platform's preferred encoding" and "always check this out in > _this_ encoding". And Lars's proposal is just the second half of that.
Actually, what you seem to take as a whole is just half of the story. The other half that is an ability to say "what is in the repository for this path is stored in this encoding". I agree that "check it out in this encoding" is a useful thing to have, and using the in-tree .gitattributes as a place to state the project-wide preference may be OK (and .git/info/attributes should be able to override it if needed -- this probably deserves to be added to a test somewhere by this series). Luckily, lack of 'in-repository-encoding' attribute is not a show stopper for this series. A later topic could start with "earlier, in order to make use of w-t-e attribute, you had to have your contents in UTF-8. Teach the codepath to honor a new attribute that tells in what encoding the blob contents are stored." without having to be a part of this topic.
