Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID: <16C3D0BC-3A70-441C-89D9-71B5F0DA0790@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170032230.17650@racer.site>

Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is  
>> sane.
>
> Actually, no.  Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the
> _original_ name around, if only for the exact same argument you used
> earlier: if the user chooses to capitalise some letters, but not  
> others,
> it is not the filesystem's place to "correct" that.

For the record, HFS+ is case-insensitive but case-preserving so I believe they keep the original filename around. I don't have the spec in front of me, but from memory I believe that this is what they do.

But I think that focusing on HFS+ is loosing sight of the real problem. It's not about encoding at the filesystem, but encoding inside the git structures.

Best regards,

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