Re: Re: Moving a directory into another fails

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> [...] git should acquire core.filesystemEncoding configuration variable 
> > > >> which would encode from filesystem encoding used in working directory 
> > > >> and perhaps index to UTF-8 encoding used in repository (in tree objects) 
> > > >> and perhaps index.
> > > > 
> > > > So, you want to pull in all thinkable encodings? Of course, you could rely 
> > > > on libiconv, adding yet another dependency to git. (Yes, I know, mailinfo 
> > > > uses it already. But I never use mailinfo, so I do not need libiconv.)
> > > 
> > > A conditional dependency. If you don't have libiconv, this feature wouldn't
> > > be available.
> > 
> > You are speaking as somebody compiling git from source. We are a minority.
> 
> You guys are ignoring the _real_ problem. 
> 
> It has nothing at all to do with dependencies on external packages. The 
> REAL problem is that if you do locale-dependent trees and other git 
> objects, git will STOP WORKING.