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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 16, 2008, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801161531030.17650@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <478E1FED.5010801@web.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Junker wrote:

> I have some files like "Lüftung.txt" in my repository. The strange thing is
> that I can pull / add / commit / push those files without problem but
> git-status always complains that thoes files are untraced (but not missing).

This is a known problem. Unfortunately, noone has implemented a fix, although if you're serious about it, I can point you to threads where it has been hinted how to solve the issue.

FWIW the issue is that Mac OS X decides that it knows better how to encode your filename than you could yourself.

Ciao, Dscho

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