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

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 00:45 UTC
Message-ID: <A61EFF37-A235-49C3-8F1F-64B4FB26D10B@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170034300.17650@racer.site>

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:
>
>> The content of the file is sacred, we both agree on that. We  
>> disagree on
>> the filename, because for me it's more important that equal strings,
>> even if encoded to different byte sequences, should be treated as the
>> same file.
>
> Why should the filename be _stored_ normalised?  I agree on the  
> lookup,
> yes, but not the storage.

Personally I don't care how you store it. It's an implementation detail, and you should choose the best one for your use cases. If that means that you store the original version and a normalized version just for lookups, fine.

What I think its important is that if two users use different encodings for the same string in a filename, git should treat that as the same file.

Best regards,

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Pedro Melo
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