1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index f8c7dbcead..a1502c4e87 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ int prefer_symlink_refs;
 int log_all_ref_updates;
 int warn_ambiguous_refs = 1;
 int repository_format_version;
-char git_commit_encoding[MAX_ENCODING_LENGTH] = "utf-8";
+char *git_commit_encoding;
+char *git_log_output_encoding;
 int shared_repository = PERM_UMASK;
 const char *apply_default_whitespace;
 int zlib_compression_level = Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;