From: Martin Langhoff Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 18:40:20 GMT Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control Message-ID: <46a038f90905121140n61902c61qc3cd41100efee4ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090512182828.GA26812@dpotapov.dyndns.org> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > 2. If you really want to be cross-platform portable, you should not use >   any characters in filenames outside of [A-Za-z0-9._-] (i.e. Portable >   Filename Character Set) >   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276 Would it make sense to have warnings at 'git add' time about - filenames outside of that charset (as the strictest mode, perhaps even default) - filenames that have a potential conflict wrt case-sensitivity - filenames that have potential conflict in the same tree due to utf-8 encoding vagaries MHO is that a strict "start your project portable from day one" mode is best as a default. But I'd be happy with any default, actually ;-) m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff