diff --git a/builtin-commit-tree.c b/builtin-commit-tree.c
index 146aaffd282987454c0910477cfe7a047f478e94..0651e5927e836d22246d84020576ccb3069b6c5d 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-commit-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-commit-tree.c
}
/* Not having i18n.commitencoding is the same as having utf-8 */
- encoding_is_utf8 = (!git_commit_encoding ||
- !strcmp(git_commit_encoding, "utf-8"));
+ encoding_is_utf8 = is_encoding_utf8(git_commit_encoding);
init_buffer(&buffer, &size);
add_buffer(&buffer, &size, "tree %s\n", sha1_to_hex(tree_sha1));