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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 23, 2008, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801221625510.1741@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080123000841.GA22704@mit.edu>

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

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> I'd also recommend that the Mac OS X code try to either figure out
> whether it is running on an HFS+ partition, or let the HFS+ workaround
> code be something that can be controlled via .git/config.  It
> shouldn't be on unconditionally even on a Mac OS X system, since if
> the git repository is on a ZFS or NFS filesystem, there's no reason to
> pay the overhead of working around the HFS+ bugs.

One thing I'd like somebody to check: what _does_ happen with OS X and NFS (OS X as a client, not server)? In particular:

 - Is it suddenly sane and case-sensitive?

 - Does the NFS client do any unicode conversion?

I tried to google for it, but didn't find the right keywords to get anything useful out of that modern-day internet oracle.

		Linus