Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20101004170822.GB5450@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4CAA0598.9080409@workspacewhiz.com>

Joshua Jensen wrote:

> I do not know about other file systems and what Git actually
> handles.  I was under the impression it didn't handle Unicode
> filenames well in general... ?

Except in cases like ignorecase handling, git treats path components as arbitrary streams of bytes ('\0' and path separators are forbidden, of course). It works pretty well if that's what you need.

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