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From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 02:10:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I thought it solved that by the hosting folks never seeing the strange
> > binary-looking data. They see only utf8, which diffs well.
> 
> Ah, OK, that is a "fix" in a wider context (in a narrower context,
> "work around" is a more appropriate term ;-).
> 
> The reason why I have been nudging people toward considering in-repo
> encoding attribute is because forcing projects that already have
> their contents in a strange binary-looking encoding to switch is
> costly.  But perhaps having them pay one-time conversion pain is a
> better investment longer term.

Yeah, thanks for mentioning that. It should have gone in my "relative
merits" list. The conversion flag-day is definitely going to be a pain
for users, and doesn't help with diffing older versions.

-Peff