From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:26:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801230923450.22568@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl0pp7u5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

I wonder if that is good enough.  Git repositories can be copied over to 
different filesystems.


Nicolas