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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/gui.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pretty.c | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/t4210-log-i18n.sh | 7 |
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gui.txt b/Documentation/config/gui.txt index d30831a130..0c087fd8c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gui.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gui.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ gui.displayUntracked:: in the file list. The default is "true". gui.encoding:: - Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of + Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 27ddaf84a1..b3af850608 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -33,14 +33,16 @@ people using 80-column terminals. used together. --encoding=<encoding>:: - The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message + Commit objects record the character encoding used for the log message in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be encoded in `X` and we are outputting in `X`, we will output the object verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original - commit may be copied to the output. + commit may be copied to the output. Likewise, if iconv(3) fails + to convert the commit, we will output the original object + verbatim, along with a warning. --expand-tabs=<n>:: --expand-tabs:: @@ -671,7 +671,11 @@ const char *repo_logmsg_reencode(struct repository *r, * If the re-encoding failed, out might be NULL here; in that * case we just return the commit message verbatim. */ - return out ? out : msg; + if (!out) { + warning("unable to reencode commit to '%s'", output_encoding); + return msg; + } + return out; } static int mailmap_name(const char **email, size_t *email_len, diff --git a/t/t4210-log-i18n.sh b/t/t4210-log-i18n.sh index d2dfcf164e..0141f36e33 100755 --- a/t/t4210-log-i18n.sh +++ b/t/t4210-log-i18n.sh @@ -131,4 +131,11 @@ do fi done +test_expect_success 'log shows warning when conversion fails' ' + enc=this-encoding-does-not-exist && + git log -1 --encoding=$enc 2>err && + echo "warning: unable to reencode commit to ${SQ}${enc}${SQ}" >expect && + test_cmp expect err +' + test_done |