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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170034300.17650@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <E8E76634-FFEC-426B-B04D-3C2CD3790D5E@simplicidade.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:

> The content of the file is sacred, we both agree on that. We disagree on 
> the filename, because for me it's more important that equal strings, 
> even if encoded to different byte sequences, should be treated as the 
> same file.

Why should the filename be _stored_ normalised? I agree on the lookup, yes, but not the storage.

Hth, Dscho

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