From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:39:27 GMT
Subject: Re: ls-tree with non-english characters
Message-ID: <20110726103927.GA31625@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <4E2E8B33.6070900@intland.com>

Szervusz Ákos,


On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Tajti Ákos wrote:
> I tried to use git ls-tree but on blob names containing non-english
> characters I get a strange output. For example:
> 
> ákosű -> \303\241kos\305\261
> 
> There's no mention of this format in the manual of ls-tree. Could you please
> help me on resolving this cryptic string to the original form?

Try with the -z option, it seems to do more than the documentation
suggests:

  $ git ls-tree HEAD
100644 blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391	"\303\241rv\303\255zt\305\261r\305\221"
  $ git ls-tree -z HEAD
100644 blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391	árvíztűrő


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