Can't get git to play nice with iconv and utf-16

Question

I\'m trying to get git to recognize UTF-16 as text to allow me to diff and patch as text natively, but I\'m having trouble getting the textconv parameter to wor

Answer 1

Use only diff, it should work:

*.rc diff=utf16

text and eol cause git to substitute end-of-lines before passing data to iconv, after which it is not a valid utf16 anymore, as noted in comments.