From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:16:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Message-ID: <20090512161638.GB29566@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090512151403.GS30527@spearce.org>

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:14:03AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> As for file names, no plans, its a sequence of bytes, but I think a
> lot of people wind up using some subset of US-ASCII for their file
> names, especially if their project is going to be cross platform.

Or they use a single encoding like utf8 so that there are no surprises.
You can still run into normalization problems with filenames on some
filesystems, though.  Linus's name_hash code sets up the framework to
handle "these two names are actually equivalent", but right now I think
there is just code for handling case-sensitivity, not utf8 normalization
(but I just skimmed the code, so I might be wrong).

-Peff