[SCM-834] Commit encoding is platform-dependent instead of UTF-8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.1
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-gitexe, maven-scm-provider-svn
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Tobias Gruetzmacher
• Created: 28/Jun/16 10:41
• Updated: 08/Sep/18 20:22
• Resolved: 08/Sep/18 20:22

Description

When doing a release with the maven-release-plugin, if you have a non-ASCII-character in your commit message (setting scmCommentPrefix to "lösung" for example), the resulting commit message has a different encoding on different operating systems. If it isn't UTF-8 (on Windows, for example), git complains with

Warning: commit message did not conform to UTF-8.
You may want to amend it after fixing the message, or set the config
variable i18n.commitencoding to the encoding your project uses.

AFAICS, the fix is pretty simple: Just add "UTF-8" to the call of fileWrite in GitCheckInCommand.java