Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2008, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20080112192903.GJ2963@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801121040010.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:47:10AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> And that isn't going to change. It's the only sane way to do 
> locale-independent names: people can *choose* to see the filenames as some 
> UTF-8 sequence, or a series of Latin1, or anything, but that's not 
> something git itself will care about.

Unfortunately, to agree on a single encoding for different systems is even more difficult than agreeing on a single end-of-line encoding. OTOH, it is not a real issue as long as anyone use ASCII names only.

> 
> Trying to involve locale in name comparison simply isn't possible.

Agreed. However, the proper solution would be that all filenames are stored in UTF-8, so conversation is done when a file is added to the index. But that requires a lot of work, and as I said before, I doubt that many people really want to store files with non-ASCII names, after all, Git is a developer tool. So, as far as I am concern, it does not worth efforts.

Dmitry