On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Yuri <y...@rawbw.com> wrote: > The fragment of 'git diff' output looks like this: > - <translation>Ошибка: адрес %1 содержит запрещенные символы. Пожалуйста, > перепро� > + <translation>Ошибка: адрес %1 содержит запрещённые символы. Пожалуйста, > перепро� > > Two issues here: > 1. Cyrilic text in utf8 got truncated not at utf8 boundary, causing this > garbage symbol in the end > 2. Truncation is done at somewhat ~70% of the actual screen width. git could > go all the way to the whole screen with, but it didn't. Shrinking terminal > width causes the output truncation limit to shrink in the same proportion. > So some bad decision about truncation size is made somewhere in 'git diff' > command. > > Suggested behavior: > 1. git should respect utf8, and in case of truncation it should add … > symbol. > 2. truncation algorithm should read current terminal width and truncate at > width-1 length to allow for the above-mentioned symbol
I don't think git diff truncates its output (it does truncate @@ lines, but not the real diff). Perhaps your pager did that? -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
