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Re: [bug-diffutils] New diff option to compare file/directory properties
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [bug-diffutils] New diff option to compare file/directory properties |
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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:00:02 -0700 |
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On 10/15/10 06:38, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> One of the key differences between quoting in gnulib and in git is that
> gnulib
> treats filenames as sequences of characters which may be multi-byte, while
> git
> treats them as sequences of bytes.
>
> I'm not sure about the reasoning behind ignoring multi-byte characters; maybe
> Paul or Junio can enlighten us.
I can't speak for Jun, but I expect the answer is, "Don't worry
about stupid encodings". If you use a reasonable encoding like UTF-8,
git's quoting method works just like gnulib's does. I don't think diffutils
(or git) needs to worry about what happens to users who insist on using
those awful legacy encodings.