From: Jay Soffian Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:08:48 GMT Subject: Re: Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git Message-ID: <76718490902110808g47b3ce0bm24419c89b5cb4aaa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <85647ef50902110356l19870259t9de22fd8827ac144@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Constantine Plotnikov wrote: > 3. As I understand, there is an unresolved problem with Mac OSX HFS+ > case insensitive file system due to file name normalization. HFS+ can be configured to be case-sensitive, though it is not by default. However, this is only a problem if the repo contains > 1 filenames that collide in a case-insensitive filesystem, since HFS+ is case-preserving. The larger HFS+ problem is that it performs Unicode NFD normalization, which is unfortunately lossy. There are some good links about the topic here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172383 j.