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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 01:06 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801161705520.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170032230.17650@racer.site>

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is sane.
> 
> Actually, no.  Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the 
> _original_ name around

You're right. The normalization only really needs to happen as part of the name comparison itself.

		Linus

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