From: Kevin Ballard Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:43:24 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: <427BE4FD-6534-4CB2-91F8-F9014DC82B54@sb.org> In-Reply-To: On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Junker wrote: > >> I have some files like "Lüftung.txt" in my repository. The strange >> thing is >> that I can pull / add / commit / push those files without problem but >> git-status always complains that thoes files are untraced (but not >> missing). > > This is a known problem. Unfortunately, noone has implemented a fix, > although if you're serious about it, I can point you to threads > where it > has been hinted how to solve the issue. > > FWIW the issue is that Mac OS X decides that it knows better how to > encode > your filename than you could yourself. More like, Mac OS X has standardized on Unicode and the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet. Git is the only tool I've ever heard of that has a problem with OS X using Unicode. -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com