Re: git and cyrillic branches

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2013, 01:50 UTC
Message-ID: <51F1D5F7.5060101@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <922031374754788@web29h.yandex.ru>

On 2013-07-25 14.19, иванов иван wrote:

> hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
> 1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on remote server it does)
> 2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be resolved to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
> thanks.

It could be helpful if you could provide more information. The best could be a step-by-step instruction using a some "mini repo", so that we we can reproduce the problem. I have done an illustrating example using UTF-8, (not cyrillic, I don't have these letters on my keyboard ;-)

tb@linux:~$ mkdir cyrill
tb@linux:~$ cd cyrill/
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tb/cyrill/.git/
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ echo File>File
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git checkout -b bränch
Switched to a new branch 'bränch'
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git add File
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git commit -m "Add File"
[bränch (root-commit) e39d84e] Add File
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 "File"
tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git branch
* bränch
tb@linux:~/cyrill$

tb@macos:~> git clone tb@linux:~/cyrill
Cloning into 'cyrill'...
tb@linux's password: 
remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
tb@macos:~> cd cyrill/
tb@macos:~/cyrill> git branch
* bränch
tb@macos:~/cyrill> ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 tb  staff  6 Jul 26 03:39 File
tb@macos:~/cyrill>

=================== Other question: what does (on Mac OS) git config core.precomposeunicode give you? /Torsten