Convert git repository file encoding
I have a large CVS repository containing files in ISO-8859-1 and want to convert this to git. Sure I can configure git to use ISO-8859-1 for encoding, but I would like to have it in utf8 . Now with tools such as iconv or recode I can convert the encoding for the files in my working tree. I could commit this with a message like converted encoding . My question now is, is there a possibility to convert the complete history? Either when converting from cvs to git or afterwards. My idea would be to write a script that reads each commit in the git repository and to convert it to utf8 and to commit