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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 10:22 UTC
Message-ID: <17846BF5-1215-4C28-8BBC-2C745A053156@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <AD012876-3B4A-41EE-8CCB-F60D5C812903@gmail.com>

El 17/1/2008, a las 8:11, Mitch Tishmack escribió:

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> I was going to post this earlier, but wanted to search the archives  
> first. Here are the commands assuming you don't want to or can't  
> partition a drive and format as ufs (I don't care for HFS+ much). I  
> can't believe I didn't find the command in the git list archives, so  
> voilà:
>
> $ hdiutil create -size 300m -fs UFS foo.dmg
> ...............................................................................
> created: /Users/mitch/foo.dmg
> $ hdiutil attach foo.dmg
> /dev/disk2          	GUID_partition_scheme          	
> /dev/disk2s1        	Apple_UFS                      	/Volumes/untitled
> $ cd /Volumes/untitled && git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/ 
> git.git
> ... snipped ...
> $ cd git && git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> After git clone in HFS+ land...
> $ git status
> # On branch master
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #	gitweb/test/MaÌˆrchen
> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add"  
> to track)
>
> Should I just add this to the wiki?

Definitely.

> Then we can all go back to ignoring the insane filesystems.

While it's a nice workaround, it really is just that (a workaround) because performance will be suboptimal in a repository running on a disk image (and many of switched to Git because of its speed).

Cheers, Wincent