Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>> 
>> > Random thought.  Would it make sense to implement a git paranoid
>> > mode to autodetect name mangling.
>> >
>> > I.e.  After opening or creating a file by name we do a readdir in the
>> > same directory to make certain we can find that same name/inode
>> > combination.  Then on name-mangling systems we can autodetect they
>> > exist and limit ourselves to just what they don't mangle with no
>> > prior knowledge.  By refusing to process names that actively
>> > get mangled.   For small directories that you frequently see in
>> > development it shouldn't even be that slow.
>> 
>> Inside init-db where we already check how the filesystem
>> behaves, we could have an autodetection.
>
> I wonder if that is good enough.  Git repositories can be copied over to 
> different filesystems.