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

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 01:27 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90801221727t188b33a9t86ddd2747473b274@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <98315FA6-CFEF-4BB1-997B-0B10BDBBE37B@sb.org>

On Jan 23, 2008 2:16 PM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:

> > If I connect
> > to a MacOS X server exporting an HFS file system, I can
> > "touch FOO" and then "rm foo" and the rm will work.

So this bit of insanity can affect users on other OSs too, if they use git on an NFS mountpoint hosted on OSX/HFS+.

IIRC Apple does recommend UFS for servers though. I wonder how XServe machines ship by default.

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