From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:54:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use FIX_UTF8_MAC to enable conversion from UTF8-MAC to UTF8 Message-ID: <7vmyqythwa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > Again, as an OSX-only workaround it's probably acceptable, and perhaps > that's the only thing to look at right now. But it does strike me as a > design mistake to do it at that level. Yes, we would need a reverse conversion when going from index to work tree, including entry.c, in order to be able to emulate this on filesystems that do not take "equivalent" but different names on open(), creat() and lstat().