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

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> 
> > Random thought.  Would it make sense to implement a git paranoid
> > mode to autodetect name mangling.
> >
> > I.e.  After opening or creating a file by name we do a readdir in the
> > same directory to make certain we can find that same name/inode
> > combination.  Then on name-mangling systems we can autodetect they
> > exist and limit ourselves to just what they don't mangle with no
> > prior knowledge.  By refusing to process names that actively
> > get mangled.   For small directories that you frequently see in
> > development it shouldn't even be that slow.
> 
> Inside init-db where we already check how the filesystem
> behaves, we could have an autodetection.