Re: OSX, ZFS, UTF8, git - somebody hates me in this list

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: May 4, 2008, 21:56 UTC
Message-ID: <86skwxd97d.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080504215208.GG29038@spearce.org>

>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn O Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

Shawn> "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:

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>> repeat by:
>> 0) download the OSX ZFS drivers
>> 1) Make a ZFS partition on OSX.
>> 2) Clone git.git to the ZFS partition
>> 3) immediately type git-status:
>> 
>> # On branch master
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>> #
>> #       "gitweb/test/Ma\314\210rchen"
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Shawn> Isn't this just the normal HFS+ name mangling?

I don't recall having this problem on HFS+.

But, oh, it's because my git.git is on a UFS partition. So UFS works fine. Why shouldn't ZFS (which will be closer to UFS than HFS+) be the same?

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