Re: git and cyrillic branches

> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:06:41 +0400
> ксовиран <xowirun@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>>>>   hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of
>>>>   branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote
>>>>   branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
>>>>   1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on
>>>>   remote server it does)
>>>>   2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be
>>>>  resolved to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up
>>>>  unexpectedly" thanks.
>>>  Works for me across two Debian systems: both have Git 1.7.10.4; user
>>>  accounts on both systems have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 configured in their
>>>  environment.
>>>
>>>  Do both of your systems (local and remote) have an UTF-8-enabled (or
>>>  encoding-agnostic, like "C") locale active?
>>  oh, yes indeed. i was pushing from mac to ubuntu, but ubuntu to
>>  ubuntu works fine. although #locale gives almost identical output, so
>>  it is something to work out. спасибо за помощь! 25.07.2013, 16:45,
>
> I'm afraid, this might be not that simple: Git received certain tweaks
> to work around certain problems Mac OS X has (as I understand it) with
> handling UTF-8 on various filesystems it supports; in particular, see
> commits 76759c7dff53e8c84e975b88cb8245587c14c7ba [1]
> and b856ad623e4f686815986c0b9341dd1bfd791e71 [2] which were released as
> part of v1.7.12.
>
> So... I'm not sure, but I beleive these fixes might have been related to
> handling filenames in the work tree and the index only, not branches, as
> having branches with non-ASCII names is a weird idea to most
> developers, I think.  So the question is: do you have Git >= 1.7.12 on
> your Mac OS X machine?  If so, do you still experience this problem (I
> think that Macs do not have non-UTF-8 locales anyway, so this is
> unlikely the root cause).
>
> P.S.
> Please don't top-post as this breaks discussion flow and hence sucks.
>
> 1. https://github.com/git/git/commit/76759c7
> 2. https://github.com/git/git/commit/b856ad6