From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:33:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
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