From: Kevin Ballard Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:18:17 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: <9BA6785F-A715-4F5C-B192-96471243FE20@sb.org> In-Reply-To: On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Not just for filenames, by the way - this is one of the reasons I > think > it is so *important* to not corrupt filenames, exactly because this > is > in no way filename-specific at all, and filenames are generally > "textual > data" exactly the same way a text-file is. I just don't understand why you insist that the filename is data, when it is clearly metadata. The filename has two purposes: the identify the file to the user, and to provide a handle with which to reference the file contents. The specific byte sequence is in no way sacred. -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com