Le samedi 04 avril 2009 à 18:43 +0100, Simos a écrit : > There are two issues that came up at gnome-i18n and are unclear regarding git. > It would be good to get a position on this and I'll document for the GTP. > > 1. Do translation commits require to have a --signoff? > At the moment there is no git config option to automatically signoff > a commit, and this would make it slightly cumbersome for translators > to add manually. > > 2. What is the issue regarding UTF-8 in commit messages? > This is mostly an issue with names of people. > At first the reaction would be to simply use ASCII characters. > > However, with git and git-send-e-mail, there will eventually be > non-ASCII person names > in commit messages. > > For this, it might be good to have an overall policy for UTF-8, and > add to the documentation > something like > > git config --global format.headers "Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=\"utf-8\"" > > Then, the policy could be either to refrain from using UTF-8 if it can > be avoided or use UTF-8 at will.
git seems to consider all commit metadata as UTF-8. See the discussion at the end of http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-commit.html I think it's time to consider UTF-8 to be the default text encoding on our platform. Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
