Re: [bug-diffutils] New diff option to compare file/directory properties

[Junio C Hamano]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, well and enough said ;-)