I'm pretty sure git doesn't have a problem with utf-8 characters..
-Matt On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:19 AM, sytse <sy...@gitlab.com> wrote: > Git can't handle UTF-8 characters in the branch as far as I know. > > > On Friday, August 29, 2014 3:57:59 PM UTC+2, Matthew Fleming wrote: > Hey there, > > We are getting a 500 error when creating merge/pull requests from a branch > that contains UTF-8 characters in the change log. Mysql freaks out about the > unicode characters and doesn't allow the merge request to be written to the > db. When I removed the utf8 chars things worked properly. Interestingly, the > merge request to my own master branch (I was on a feature branch) was > successful, so I'm thinking there is a slightly different path taken there. > When I submitted the merge request across repositories it always failed > however (until the character was removed). > > -Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "GitLab" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gitlabhq/IIFsrJo_nV8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/8081bdc4-b8ec-4822-ad5d-9124da56864c%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/A8731793-7B98-4553-A49D-3B9A0114D9BD%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
