Re: Bug: pull --rebase with é in name

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Mar 5, 2012, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <87399nqqog.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20120305102657.GB29061@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:59:16AM +0100, René Haber wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble with the following scenario:
>> My name contains an é with accent. Having set
>> git config --global user.name "René Haber"
>> and several commits with that name in a project.
>
> That should work in general, but...
>
>> git pull --rebase
>> [...]
>> /sw/lib/git-core/git-am: line 675: Haber: command not found
>> 
>> The problem lies in .git/rebase-apply/author-script :
>> 
>> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Rene'́ Haber
>> GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='rene@habr.de'
>> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1330931169 +0100'
>
> That's definitely not right.
>
> I can't seem to reproduce it here with a simple test (neither with
> "René" in the author name, nor with an author name containing
> single-quote). What version of git are you using (it looks like a recent
> one, as it has the magic @-date syntax). Have you set
> i18n.commitencoding, or are otherwise using an encoding besides utf8? Is
> it possible to share the commits that trigger this bug?

Also, can you post a hex dump of the config that defines user.name (try 'xxd ~/.gitconfig'), so we can see the encoding of René?

I find it pretty odd that Git manages to split the ´ from the e, so I'm wondering if perhaps you are using UTF-8 in NFD or similar.

-- 
Thomas Rast
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