Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2008, 04:22 UTC
Message-ID: <2D7A24EC-06DF-4F73-8638-ABE437F33311@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90801211921j777748cfjf080220e98b01fb6@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 21, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On Jan 22, 2008 4:04 PM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
>> Again, I don't think that's the correct solution. What about the
>> translation table that was suggested back at the beginning of the
>> thread? That would solve the case insensitivity issue as well,  
>> whereas
>> this NFC "solution" does nothing for that.
>
> Kevin,
>
> you seem to know the problem fairly well. Could you write up a set of
> testcases that show the bug? See the "t" directory in the git sources
> -- you don't need to learn much about git internals, they are just
> shell scripts (mostly, I think there's some perl there too). That
> could lead to a good contribution to the project.

See now this is actually a very good suggestion. I probably should have done this long ago. Thank you very much for actually responding about the problem. You are the first person to do so.

-Kevin Ballard

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