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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 01:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801170106390.17650@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <D32FF2AF-EA90-4737-8320-836B52AF4612@wincent.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> El 17/1/2008, a las 1:40, Pedro Melo escribió:
> 
> > That's the point I'm making. The fact that I need to set LANG across 
> > all users of a project is insane...

FWIW if you use another filesystem, such as reiserfs or ext[2-4], the filenames will be _unaffected_ by your particular setting of LANG. They will be stored byte-wise exactly like asked for. That's why I call them "sane".

Hth, Dscho

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