From: Geert Bosch Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:13:49 GMT Subject: gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis Message-ID: In the git repository, after git checkout -f: potomac:~/git%git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) ... # gitweb/test/Märchen potomac:~/git%rm gitweb/test/Ma\314\210rchen potomac:~/git%git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) # # deleted: gitweb/test/Märchen Aaaarghh!! There seems something inconsistent in the encoding of the ä letter that confuses git on my Mac OS X system. My environment has LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set, in case that matters. Filename completion results in Ma\314\210rchen, but the index encodes it as M\303\244rchen: 0107272 g i t w e b / t e s t / M ? ? r 147 151 164 167 145 142 057 164 145 163 164 057 115 303 244 162 The filesystem seems to be fine with either: potomac:~/git%ls -l gitweb/test/Ma\314\210rchen gitweb/test/M\303 \244rchen -rw-r--r-- 1 bosch staff 17 2007-04-09 14:51 gitweb/test/Märchen -rw-r--r-- 1 bosch staff 17 2007-04-09 14:51 gitweb/test/Märchen Anybody has insights in what causes this? Thanks in advance! -Geert