Subject: Re: bug#34350: 27.0.50; ediff-revision broken with SVN backend + non ascii chars both in directory and in filename

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 20:25:35 +0300

On 07.02.2019 18:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Any idea why it insists on disabling code-conversions?

This was well before my time, and the only people I remember messing 
with these variables anywhere in VC ever since are you (for 
Windows-related fixes) and Michael. So this might require some digging 
with vc-annotate.

Also note that this affects two commands: one that returns the file 
name, and another, its contents. I'm not sure what encoding 'git 
cat-file blob' outputs in.

> In addition to producing undecoded buffer, these bindings have the
> adverse effect of forcing Emacs not to encode command-line arguments
> we pass to the VCS, which is the immediate cause for the current bug.

The adverse effect sounds like a separate bug.