On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:47:01AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 16 2017, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > > > I can't help but feel this is the tip of a larger iceberg, though. E.g., > > what about characters outside of the terminal's correct encoding? Or > > broken UTF-8 characters? > > Or correctly encoded UTF-8 characters that look confusing? Or blobs > with embedded escape sequences?
Yes, leaving ESC unfiltered here made me hesitate, too. We must allow it to show colors, but showing diffs with raw terminal codes can be quite confusing. My general advice on committing unprintable characters is: don't. -Peff
