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Re: Bug in git-status with non-ascii characters:

From
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2007, 05:35 UTC
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<0F18E523-350A-48F5-AD7C-A1B3C21A3B56@silverinsanity.com>
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<20070109052832.GA2371@spearce.org>
On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> There's a bug in the Mac OS X filesystem apparently.
>
> Git created the file with one encoding.  Later when Git does a
> readdir() to find out what files are in the directory Mac OS X is
> returning it with a different encoding.  There's more details in
> the list archives; all I know is Mac OS X is broken here.  And we
> Mac users get to suffer...

D'oh. RTFL? I should have known better minds than I had looked at this already.

> P.S. I'm also a Mac OS X user.  I've gotten used to that file
> showing up and just visually ignore it now.  *sigh*

I'm pretty used to it showing up, I was just poking around git (see recent patches) and thought about tracking it down.

~~ Brian
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  1. Brian GernhardtJan 9, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceJan 9, 2007
  3. Brian GernhardtJan 9, 2007
  4. Juergen RuehleJan 9, 2007
  5. Wolfgang FischerJan 9, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJan 9, 2007

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