From: Kevin Ballard Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:16:35 GMT Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote: > >> It's not using different encodings, it's all Unicode. > > But that's the _point_! It _is_ Unicode, yet it uses _different_ > encodings of the _same_ string. > > Now, this discussion gets really annoying. The real question is: > will you > do something about it, or reply with another 500-line email? I wish I could do something about it. But right now I'm a full-time student trying to do contracting jobs on the side, and I don't believe I have the time to learn enough about the guts of git to try and make any changes to something as core as index filename handling. I just want people here to recognize that this is a valid problem instead of simply dismissing it as "HFS+ is insane, lets just ignore this issue". -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com