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

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jan 21, 2008, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID: <85ejca6glx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7EB98659-4036-45DA-BD50-42CB23ED517A@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:

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>>> It does? Why on earth should it do that? Filename doesn't
>>> contribute to the
>>> listed filesize on OS X.
>>
>> Umm. What's this inability to see that data is data is data?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. I stated a fact - at least on OS X, the
> filename does not contribute to the listed filesize, so changing the
> encoding of the filename doesn't change the filesize. This isn't a
> philosophical point, it's a factual statement.

Changing the encoding of the file name most certainly changes the file size of the directory.

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