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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 31a4f92840..aa3deae392 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -312,6 +312,14 @@ number of pitfalls: internal contents as UTF-8 and try to convert it to UTF-16 on checkout. That operation will fail and cause an error. +- Reencoding content to non-UTF encodings can cause errors as the + conversion might not be UTF-8 round trip safe. If you suspect your + encoding to not be round trip safe, then add it to + `core.checkRoundtripEncoding` to make Git check the round trip + encoding (see linkgit:git-config[1]). SHIFT-JIS (Japanese character + set) is known to have round trip issues with UTF-8 and is checked by + default. + - Reencoding content requires resources that might slow down certain Git operations (e.g 'git checkout' or 'git add'). |