Convert git repository file encoding
You can do this with git filter-branch. The idea is that you have to change the encoding of the files in every commit, rewriting each commit as you go.
First, write a script that changes the encoding of every file in the repository. It could look like this:
#!/bin/shfind . -type f -print | while read f; do mv -i "$f" "$f.recode.$$" iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < "$f.recode.$$" > "$f" rm -f "$f.recode.$$"doneThen use git filter-branch to run this script over and over again, once per commit:
git filter-branch --tree-filter /tmp/recode-all-files HEADwhere /tmp/recode-all-files is the above script.
Right after the repository is freshly upgraded from CVS, you probably have just one branch in git with a linear history back to the beginning. If you have several branches, you may need to enhance the git filter-branch command to edit all the commits.