From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:26:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1BvcQtOzPR=a8NJ9QHXUMhfmmLWwbKMZqsmQTSE150TaXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/10/1 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

> Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> You meant here _graphemes_, not Unicode codepoint when talking about
> characters, didn't you?

Yes.