Re: [BUG] git filter-branch failed to suppress a file with an accentuated letter in the filename

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2008, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwsp5g8to.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802151811240.30505@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> I have to wonder in what century filter-branch was written ;-)
>> 
>> Shouldn't those two lines be:
>> 
>> 	git diff-index -r --name-only $commit |
>>         git update-index --add --replace --remove --stdin
>> 
>> these days, without any of the cut and cruft?
>
> Maybe even using "-z" in both cases?
>
> Having said that, I do not understand why the old code did not work.  Will 
> have a look later today.

The reason mine does not have to use -z is because both end knows how to C-quote paths under non-z mode.

Now you mention it, it certainly is a bit puzzling why the old one did not work.