This article irritates my in several ways: * Complaining about someone doing a good thing Remember, Microsoft doesn't have to release this! Microsoft could

This article irritates my in several ways: * Complaining about someone doing a good thing Remember, Microsoft doesn't have to release this! Microsoft could choose to never release this and they will be completely in their rights to do so. Having something release at all is better then nothing. Calling it "not good enough", and asking for more sounds very entitled to me. * Blaming the wrong tool Git doesn't care about file encoding, it can handle binary files perfectly fine. The most it will do is converting the line endings if you ask it to. The binary data is likely botched during encoding conversion, not by git. * There are much better ways to achieve what the author wants I can see 2 possibilities. Either the files are botched when they were imported into the repo, in which case the original files are intact so nothing is lost. They could just asked for the original files, and they will most likely get them. Or, the files were like this even before they were imported, perhaps corrupted at some point in the past. In that case writing an article to complain really won't achieve anything.