From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:07:11 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bugreport-2021-01-06-1209.txt (git can't deal with special characters)
Message-ID: <20210108190711.hdafki7kxani7s45@tb-raspi4>
In-Reply-To: <613fb31c-c23d-0568-f311-74eb14bba2ca@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote:
> Hi Torsten,

[snip]

>
> change to:
> FILENAME=file
>
> >
> > rm -rf $DIR &&
> >      mkdir $DIR &&
> >      cd $DIR &&
> >      $GIT init &&
> >      mkdir $DIRNAME &&
>
> add:
> cd $DIRNAME &&
>
> >      echo "Initial" >$FILENAME &&
[]

That did the trick, the test case is now reproducible here.

I am looking into the stuff, somewhere inside the pathspec machinery,
determinating a "prefix" and using xgetcwd we need a precompose_string.
But only if core.precomposeunicode is true.

And I am still digging.
It seems as if there could be a patch in a couple of days, but no promises.