Re: Git on macOS shows committed files as untracked

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jul 14, 2017, 12:35 UTC
Message-ID: <8b5fc22c-4d65-d34a-a84c-c913f454c771@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAHVrscDg8bc-CYm6dSJFgdPSv1vJ0=AC0s3y26CHctKkYAvJyA@mail.gmail.com>

(Please no top-posting) On 14/07/17 11:45, Elliot Chandler wrote:

> For what it's worth, the file looks normal in Gentoo GNU/Linux (name appears 
> "ḋἲ╓εﮯ𒑏○╓Ӳ" and it seems to work like any other directory).
>

Thanks for testing - Normal and Normal ;-) For me the 6th code point does look strange The "box" with 04142F: Code point 4142F is unassigned and is outside any currently defined block range.

So this is not valid Unicode, so we have a problem here under MacOS - not much Git can do about it.

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> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de 
> <mailto:tboegi@web.de>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 14/07/17 06:49, Lutz Roeder wrote:
> 
>         Using precomposeunicode still reproduces the issue:
> 
>         Repro steps:
> 
>         1. Download
>         https://www.dropbox.com/s/0q5pbpqpckwzj7b/gitstatusrepro.zip?dl=0
>         <https://www.dropbox.com/s/0q5pbpqpckwzj7b/gitstatusrepro.zip?dl=0>
>         2. unzip gitstatusrepro.zip && cd gitstatusrepro
>         3. git reset --hard
>         4. git -c core.precomposeunicode=true status
> 
>         On branch master
>         Untracked files:
>             (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> 
> 
>     A (short) investigation shows that this seems to be invalid unicode,
>     at least from a MacOSX point of view ?
> 
>     Unzipping your repo shows this:
>       git status -u
>        deleted:
>     "\341\270\213\341\274\262\342\225\223\316\265\357\256\257\360\222\221\217\342\227\213\342\225\223\323\262/test.txt"
> 
> 
>     ===============
>     If I run this:
>       xx=$(printf
>     "d\314\207\316\271\314\223\314\200\342\225\223\316\265\357\256\257\360\222\221\217\342\227\213\342\225\223\320\243\314\213/")
> 
>     echo   $xx | iconv -f UTF-8-MAC -t UTF-16 | xxd
> 
>     iconv: (stdin):1:5: cannot convert
>     0000000: feff 1e0b 1f32 2553 03b5 fbaf            .....2%S....
>     ===============================
>     So I don't know if we can do something in Git to improve your repo.
>     How did  you end up with such a directory name ?
>     And would it be possible to rename it ?
> 
> 
>