Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add slurm.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:22:56PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 03:40:55PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > If that is it, then I believe git should "do the right thing" when
> > generating patches. I've noticed that it progressively sets the encoding
> > based on the minimum required to encode the characters in the patch.
> 
> The last line of your diffoscope shows that Pjotr's patch was encoded
> in iso-8559-1, while all the scheme files in guix are in utf-8. It seems
> quite clear to me that this is the reason for our problems. And apparently,
> the git version plays a role in this.

I think the old version of git must play a role, or every patch with a
copyright attribution line would fail to apply.