Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jan 17, 2008, 13:05 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > [Jay, don't cull Cc: lists on vger.kernel.org. I consider it rude.] > > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > Yes, and I think that a lot of time would have more wisely spent on > > reading that, and trying to implement it, than writing a number of > > long mails, repeating the _same_ (refuted) points over and over again. > > I searched the archives for the posts about normalization and I could > not find them, sorry.
Here's my pointer:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel/387/focus=61073
FWIW I searched by the term "readdir", and then browsed the thread to find a more interesting post than the first hit.
> Is stringprep (RFC 3454) being proposed as an optional normalization > step before lookups in the index?
I don't know. I'd probably prefer something using iconv (which we use already if it's available), so that the same system can be used for case-insensitivity, UTF-8 normalisation, but also other transformations you might wish to perform.
Ciao, Dscho