From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, 23595@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23595: 25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 19:51:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fut867lt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877felj69g.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Mon, 23 May 2016 12:41:47 +0000)
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 12:41:47 +0000
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>,
> "23595@debbugs.gnu.org" <23595@debbugs.gnu.org>
>
> I don't care so much about the difference for the (short) Asian
> text, but I do care about the fact that now the file seems to be
> «doomed» in the sense that the diff of each and every new commit
> ends up in Chinese, that is the file is considered as binary from
> now on and that is really bad.
I'm guessing that Git uses the same strategy as GNU Diff for detecting
binary files, which AFAIR is by looking for binary nulls (Paul can
correct me if I'm wrong). And UTF-16 encoded files have lots of
binary nulls.
However, using the --text switch to "git diff" ought to fix that.
Does it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-21 13:02 bug#23595: 25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS) Uwe Brauer
2016-05-23 11:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-23 12:41 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-05-23 13:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-23 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-23 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 17:00 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-05-23 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 20:37 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-05-23 21:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-24 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 21:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-23 22:16 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-23 22:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-24 0:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-24 9:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 6:51 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 12:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 12:48 ` Overriding the value of indent-tabs-mode in Emacs code Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 21:44 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 22:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 22:36 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 22:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 23:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-25 23:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 23:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-26 10:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-26 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-27 19:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-27 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-27 20:19 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-27 20:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-05-26 0:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-25 23:40 ` Karl Fogel
2016-05-26 0:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-24 2:40 ` bug#23595: 25.1.50; file with chinese/japanse chars, vc-diff fails (HG, Git, RCS) Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-24 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-24 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-24 9:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-24 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-25 0:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-25 23:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-26 10:44 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-05-26 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-19 19:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-25 6:19 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-25 6:19 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-23 17:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-23 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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