Re: gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 9, 2007, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070409191820.GA5436@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <FBFBF002-4887-4216-9CF0-42407E93045C@adacore.com>

Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:

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> # On branch master
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
> #
> #       deleted:    gitweb/test/Märchen
> 
> Aaaarghh!! There seems something inconsistent in the encoding
> of the ä letter that confuses git on my Mac OS X system.
> My environment has LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set, in case that matters.

This has been discussed on the list in the past. Mac OS X does a bad thing here; it is normalizating the UTF-8 encoding in a different way than Git supplied the encoding. This is apparently done to support its other bad feature, case insensitive filesystems. ;-)

Basically what Git gave Mac OS X during an open() syscall is not what it gets back during a readdir() because the filesystem changed the byte sequence on us. Yea, not cute.

I think I stuck the byte sequence Mac OS X is supplying into my .git/info/exclude and the problem went away...

-- 
Shawn.