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Re: Git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode

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LKLeo Koppelkamm <hello@leo-koppelkamm.de>
Date
Mar 21, 2013, 16:30 UTC
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<E5C0B2ABD2EF46908D0711EF0C09817B@leo-koppelkamm.de>
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I found the problem: I copied the config out of your commit message, where you wrote core.precompose****d****unicode Turns out the d is too much. It seems to work now.

Leo  
On Thursday, 21 March 2013 at 17:04, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
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> On 21.03.13 14:00, Leo Koppelkamm wrote:
> > Torsten Bögershausen added a patch for this a while ago.
> > It seems it only works for files, not for folders with unicode in it.
> >  
> > Eg. on ubuntu box:
> > git init
> > mkdir hä
> > touch hä/file
> > git add hä
> > git commit  
> >  
> > Later on Mac
> > git clone ………
> > git status
> >  
> > # On branch master  
> > # Untracked files:  
> > # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)  
> > #  
> > # hä/
> >  
> > Regards Leo
> That is what I read from the commit message:
>  
> When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
> "core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".
>  
> The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically
> sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
> systems mounted via SAMBA.
>  
> (Which is slighty wrong, because the name of the config variable
> is core.precomposeunicode)
>  
> What does
> git config core.precomposeunicode
> say ?
>  
> You may consider to set it to set it to true globally,
> git config --global core.precomposeunicode true,
> and the next "git clone" will work as expected.
>  
> On the other hand,
> could/should we consider to change the default to true in Git 2.0?
>  
> HTH
> /Torsten
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  1. Torsten BögershausenMar 21, 2013
  2. Leo KoppelkammMar 21, 2013

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