From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:35:05 GMT
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
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