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

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90801211343q4a36195dp319beb3020e57600@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E46A8ED2-7E95-41CF-A5A7-2CB9BC18F95D@sb.org>

On Jan 22, 2008 10:28 AM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:

> That's certainly a reasonable POV. However, it's not the only one. As
> evidenced by the Mac, treating filenames as strings rather than bytes
> is a viable alternative POV - you can't argue that it doesn't work,
> because OS X proves it does.

With its own slew of bugs. See Ted's reply earlier for a mouthful of woe in HFS+ that is not easy to workaround.

> Perhaps you should try OS X. Every single Cocoa app should do the

OSX has given me enough grief with other filesystem and general OS problems that I have definitely abandoned it after 2 years trying to use it part-time. It has been back to linux for me ;-)

cheers,

martin