Re: Patch RFA: Support non-ASCII file names in git-changelog

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> > I have no idea who that is (if it is a single user at all,
> > if it isn't any user with git write permissions).
> 
> CCing Joel, he should help us how to set a git config
> that will be used by the server hooks.

I am not sure that requiring both the server and the user to agree
on a non-default configuration value would be a practical idea.

From what I understand of the problem, I think the proper fix
is really to adapt the git-changelog script to avoid the need
for any assumption about the user's configuration. In particular,
how does the script get the list of files? Poking around, it looks like
you guys are using the GitPython module, which I'm not familiar with,
unfortunately.  But as a reference point, the git-hooks simply use
the -z option to get the information in raw format, and thus avoids
the problem of filename quoting entirely. Does GitPython support
something similar? For instance, browing the GitPython documentation,
I found attributes a_raw_path and b_raw_path. Could that be the
solution (instead of using a_path and b_path?

Either way, the solution will be independent of the git-hooks,
as I don't think they are actually involved, here.

-- 
Joel