On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:55:58AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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).
If we are just talking about a check-out feature, I'm not sure that the in-repository encoding is all that interesting. As with CRLFs, we would be declaring UTF-8 as the "canonical" in-repo encoding for such conversions. Is there a reason you'd want something else? If the feature were "the in-repo encoding is X, and I want you to show me a diff using encoding Y", then I could see the use of that (and I think for most people's purposes that would be an equally valid solution to their problem). -Peff
