From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:59:53 GMT
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
Message-ID: <76718490801162059i2472cd82va34010caa3130b7e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76718490801162043w3884435ex435f38b9de837540@mail.gmail.com>

So here's what I can see as being useful additions to git:

* Allowing a repo to be *optionally* configured to disallow two files
in a directory that can cause aliasing problems, with options for
unicode normalization aliasing and/or case-insensitivity aliasing. Can
this already be done via hooks and someone just needs to write the
appropriate hooks?

* Having git warn during checkout if there are files which alias in
the working copy filesystem. I guess it might be interesting if there
were a mechanism in this situation for telling git which of the
aliases you want checked out, though that doesn't seem like a very
good feature.

Thoughts (besides "patches welcomed")?

j.