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

> El 17/1/2008, a las 6:15, Junio C Hamano escribió:
> 
> > "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > So here's what I can see as being useful additions to git:
> > > ...
> > > Thoughts (besides "patches welcomed")?
> > 
> > I think we already discussed a plan to store normalization mapping in 
> > the index extension section and use it to avoid getting confused by 
> > readdir(3) that lies to us.  Is there any more thing that need to be 
> > discussed?

> > I would presume that we would still add _new_ paths using the pathname 
> > we receive from the user (there is no need for us to be similarly 
> > insane as broken "normalizing" filesystems), but when deciding if a 
> > path is new or we already have it in the index would be done by seeing 
> > if an entry already exists in the index whose "normalized" form is the 
> > same as the "normalized" form of the given path --- that way we would 
> > not add two paths to the index that would "normalize" to the same 
> > string.

> And what do we do when asked to check out a tree which has two different 
> files in it whose normalized forms are the same (ie. a clone of a repo 
> created on a non-HFS+ filesystem)?
> 
> We either have to fail catastrophically, preventing the user from 
> working with that tree on HFS+, or arbitrarily pick one of the files as 
> the "winner" which gets written out into the work tree. None of the 
> options is particularly attractive, although luckily this exact 
> situation is unlikely to come up in practice.