From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:02:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1BuXiQkZG_7mvay-ybm7Q7niwXVhbmbCmkfy=wD1AKsasQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111001194746.GA16826@inner.h.iocl.org>

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.