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

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <201010042102.31336.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <201010041802.57398.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

On Montag, 4. Oktober 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Is anyone thinking "unicode" around here?

My recommendation these days is that you should not use git if you care about Unicode filenames: git is tied to POSIX in this regard, which defines filenames as streams of *bytes*.

-- Hannes

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