From: Mark Junker Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:17:01 GMT Subject: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: <478E1FED.5010801@web.de> Hi, 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). My assumption is that it's a problem with the way MacOSX stores the file names (decomposed UTF-8). So something like "Lüftung.txt" becomes "Lüftung.txt". It seems that git-status does two things: 1. Find files under version control (i.e. search for missing files) 2. Find files not under version control (i.e. search for untracked files) I guess that the first look-up succeeds because MacOS X converts composed UTF-8 to decomposed UTF-8 when searching for a file. But it seems that the second look-up takes the file names as-is (decomposed) without converting them to composed UTF-8. Is there an easy way to fix this behaviour? It's really annoying to see all those "untracked" files that are already under version control when executing a git-status. Regards, Mark