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

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 11:23 UTC
Message-ID: <C7439732-3B79-4F2B-9D0C-679C1EC8EA0E@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801171106510.17650@racer.site>

Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> [Jay, don't cull Cc: lists on vger.kernel.org.  I consider it rude.]
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 17/1/2008, a las 6:15, Junio C Hamano escribió:
>>
>>> "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> So here's what I can see as being useful additions to git:
>>>> ...
>>>> Thoughts (besides "patches welcomed")?
>>>
>>> I think we already discussed a plan to store normalization  
>>> mapping in
>>> the index extension section and use it to avoid getting confused by
>>> readdir(3) that lies to us.  Is there any more thing that need to be
>>> discussed?
>
> Yes, and I think that a lot of time would have more wisely spent on
> reading that, and trying to implement it, than writing a number of  
> long
> mails, repeating the _same_ (refuted) points over and over again.

I searched the archives for the posts about normalization and I could not find them, sorry.

Is stringprep (RFC 3454) being proposed as an optional normalization step before lookups in the index?

Best regards,

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