From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:36:13 GMT Subject: Re: Moving a directory into another fails Message-ID: <200612051036.13645.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> [core] >> escapefilenames = true > > I think this goes too far. The problem _only_ showed up with a made-up > test case for gitweb. Let's bite the apple when we _have_ to (which I > doubt will happen, because for the most part, developers understand that > spaces and umlauts have _no_ place in filenames, basically since UNIX was > invented by stupid US Americans who did not know anything about nice > filenames, let alone other languages than English and C). No, the problem showed with stupid HFS+ which uses different encoding for creating file, and different for readdir. Perhaps we should remove gitweb/test directory, and move testing gitweb to proper place, t/ directory. By the way, would it be correct to use external tools (if they exist), namely HTMLtidy in gitweb output test to-be-written? -- Jakub Narebski