From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:20:00 GMT
Subject: Re: t9200-git-cvsexportcommit #8 failure on OS X
Message-ID: <200701302320.02187.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070130163219.GA14431@164.242.249.10.in-addr.arpa>

tisdag 30 januari 2007 17:32 skrev Brian Gernhardt:
[...]
> mkdir: ?: Invalid argument
>
> It looks like one of the odd characters that git's using for the test is
> an invalid character for HFS+, so the entire test fails.  Perhaps this
> should be made a "soft" failure like all of the SVN tests passing
> despite me not having SVN installed, or should a different character be
> used somewhere?  Git can't possibly be expected to work in a situation
> where the FS fails.

My fault. The problem is that the data is ISO-8859-1, which is invalid
when interpreted as UTF-8.  Another user reported the same problem in cygwin 
on a Korean Windows. The byte sequences are illegal there too.

A number of solution could be concieved, like converting to the local encoding 
first, but that cannot be done beacuase I couldn't find any non-ascii 
characters that would be convertible into any (major) locale. 

Another is to ignore the test if these files cannot be created.

-- robin