util-linux / git / first attempt

util-linux / git / first attempt

git is neat. It feels like tla, only with a usable interface,
less bugs and decent performance.

I'm not sure if I got all the git workflow correct, however first
patch attached. It's been tested and is clean and useful. (221290)

Can git commits be split afterwards? If I add a diff to debian/changelog
for closing a bug, does that interfere with pushing the code change
to the upstream, who doesn't care about debian/changelog?

Cheers,
        Moritz

>From 2eebc2ad36cb04ca22c277b94b525f24437e44db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@galadriel.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:55:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 8 bit characters on the Linux console lead to input corruption (e.g.
German umlauts). Easily reproducable by inserting a login name with
umlaut and typing backspace afterwards.

agetty supports tty paritys, which leads to getty treating these characters
as a 7bit char with set parity.

This patch by Samuel Thibault adds a new option -8 which disables parity
detection for ttys not used for serial logins.

| Note: With this patch, 8bit characters are just silently dropped (that's
| the expected getty behavior), this is quite neat since you then don't
| even need to backspace your 8bit characters :)