From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:18:20 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis
Message-ID: <20070409191820.GA5436@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <FBFBF002-4887-4216-9CF0-42407E93045C@adacore.com>

Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> # 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.