From: Thomas Singer Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:35:50 GMT Subject: Re: OS X and umlauts in file names Message-ID: <4B101C06.1030300@syntevo.com> In-Reply-To: <46a038f90911270256w57487e6cq9bda8b98a5384799@mail.gmail.com> Martin Langhoff wrote: > have you tried calling git-update-index --add > --stdin -z? Your original email stated No, we don't do such a massive change immediately before a release. >> we've got a problem report regarding our SmartGit GUI client > > so it sounds like you are building a porcelain. In that case, the > sanest approach is to invoke git-update-index and write to its stdin. We will try this out after release. For those who are interested: I've got it working on OS X and Git was not the problem, but Java. A longer time ago directory.list() or directory.listFiles() returned the file names with decomposed characters (as they are stored on OS X hard disk). Now (don't know which Java update introduced this change) these methods return file names with composed characters, so I had to decompose them before handing them to the git executable call. Nevertheless, the cross-platform-problem remains: if you add files with umlauts in their names on non-OS X, you will not be able to use them on OS X. -- Tom