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Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 1, 2011, 22:02 UTC
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On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 19:47, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:
> The question is, should git forbid two filenames that consist
> of the *same* characters, only differently uni-encoded? I don't
> think anyone would make two files named 'Büro', with different
> unicode encodings. But as far as I know that is a shady area.

So, let's leave git's current behavior as the default and provide a config variable that when set, tells git to handle file names in terms of characters rather than bytes.

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  1. Albert ZeyerOct 1, 2011
  2. Andreas EricssonOct 1, 2011
  3. Torsten BögershausenOct 3, 2011
  4. Andreas EricssonOct 1, 2011
  5. Andreas KreyOct 1, 2011
  6. Michael WittenOct 1, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiOct 1, 2011
  8. Michael WittenOct 1, 2011
  9. Albert ZeyerOct 1, 2011

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