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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 00:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170032230.17650@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801161619420.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is sane.

Actually, no. Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the _original_ name around, if only for the exact same argument you used earlier: if the user chooses to capitalise some letters, but not others, it is not the filesystem's place to "correct" that.

Ciao, Dscho

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