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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 18:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801171042330.14959@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <6E1A0E9A-34D7-4D85-BD4B-CF56CE3927CA@simplicidade.org>

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:

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> On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Mark Junker wrote:
>
> > IMHO it would be the best solution when git stores all string meta data in
> > UTF-8 and converts it to the target systems file system encoding. That would
> > fix all those problems with different locales and file system encodings ...
> 
> +1.
> 
> And I would suggest the use of RFC 3454 as the guidelines for UTF-8
> normalization.

The problem is that there is no way to know what the "target system encoding" is.

And it wouldn't actually solve the bigger problem on OS X anyway: as long as you are case-insensitive, you'll have all the same problems (ie the insane OS X filesystem presumably thinks that "MÄRCHEN" and "Märchen" are also identical, because they are "equivalent" names).

			Linus