Re: [PATCH/RFC] core.precomposeunicode is true by default

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2013, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AT--3Lus-3F4-8EHL_3--a-98RkJxaMMALaSjgV+D3WQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201307270321.32398.tboegi@web.de>

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:

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> When core.precomposeunicode was introduced, it was set to false
> by default, to be compatible with older versions of Git.
>
> Whenever UTF-8 file names are used in a mixed environment,
> the Mac OS users need to find out that this configuration exist
> and set it to true manually.
>
> There is no measurable performance impact between false and true.
> A smoother workflow can be achieved for new Git users,
> so change the default to true:
>
> - Remove the auto-sensing
> - Rename the internal variable into precompose_unicode,
>   and set it to 1 meaning true.
> - Adjust and clean up test cases
>
> The configuration core.precomposeunicode is still supported.

Does this have any effects on non-utf8 users? I'm on utf-8, so this is not really my concern, that is unless it changes something on LANG=C..

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Duy