René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Iconv::IllegalSequence","articleBody":"A coworker pushed a few commits, one of which added a new PDF file in a branch.  He got this error:\n\n```\nremote: Sending mail...\nremote: /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:541:in `iconv': \"\\223\\214\\213\\236 ReportLab G\"... (Iconv::IllegalSequence)\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:541:in `diff_for_commit'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:713:in `diff_for_branch'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:712:in `each'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:712:in `diff_for_branch'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/diff_to_html.rb:761:in `diff_between_revisions'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/commit_hook.rb:241:in `run'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/executor.rb:29:in `run!'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/executor.rb:27:in `each_line'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/lib/git_commit_notifier/executor.rb:27:in `run!'\nremote:     from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/git-commit-notifier-0.11.11mg2/bin/git-commit-notifier:15\nremote:     from /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notifier:19:in `load'\nremote:     from /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notifier:19\n```\n\nI can reproduce it with today's master.\n\nIn case it matters, I have a `.gitattributes` file in that branch that contains `*.pdf binary`.\n\nIdeally, git-commit-notifier wouldn't try to diff PDFs at all, as per .gitattributes, but I'll settle for not crashing and omitting emails of this and all other commits in that particular push. ;-)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mgedmin","@type":"Person","name":"mgedmin"},"datePublished":"2013-04-25T07:12:54.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/181/git-commit-notifier/issues/181"}