to be what lstat(2) and creat(2) accepts. There is no such
thing as pathname encoding translation.
- - The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequence
+ - The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences
of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core
level.
- - The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequence of non-NUL
+ - The commit log messages are uninterpreted sequences of non-NUL
bytes.
Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded
does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in
mind.
-. `git-commit-tree` (hence, `git-commit` which uses it) issues
+. 'git-commit' and 'git-commit-tree' issues
a warning if the commit log message given to it does not look
like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your
project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to
help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
-. `git-log`, `git-show` and friends looks at the `encoding`
+. 'git-log', 'git-show' and friends looks at the `encoding`
header of a commit object, and tries to re-code the log
message into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can
specify the desired output encoding with