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

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <D32FF2AF-EA90-4737-8320-836B52AF4612@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <B2E52451-5153-4EFD-ADBE-AACDCEF6169E@simplicidade.org>

El 17/1/2008, a las 1:40, Pedro Melo escribió:

> That's the point I'm making. The fact that I need to set LANG across  
> all users of a project is insane...

I don't think I'd call that "insane" (in fact, I think these discussions would be much less irritating for all involved if we didn't use that word so often, even when it's not called for). It's not that different than the whole LF/CRLF line-ending thing.

The real problem is that setting LANG won't help you on Mac OS X; set LANG to whatever you want and there is *nothing* that you can do to stop your filenames being normalized into decomposed UTF-8, short of dropping HFS+. You can use an alternative filesystem, but support for basically everything except HFS+ is suboptimal in Mac OS X at the moment.

Cheers, Wincent