Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

From: Matthias Moeller <matthias.moeller@math.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: May 20, 2010, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <4BF4FDD9.9090500@math.tu-dortmund.de>
In-Reply-To: <4BF4F7D7.60002@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On 05/20/2010 10:50 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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>> Is this problem particular to Git, or do you also get it if you
>> e.g. rsync from the Linux box to the Mac OS X box?
>>     
> No, the problem with git status is not the display. Matthias' problem is
> that git status reports a tracked file as untracked. The reason is that
> on HFS+, you create a file with name A and get a file with name B, where
> A and B are different representations of the same name. There seems to
> be no way to reliably detect which one HFS+ uses.
>

Yes, the problem is not the display but the filesystem. I had similar problems with unison some time ago. But there was a special fix for utf-8 and Mac OS X in one of the newer unison versions.

Matthias