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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 17, 2008, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801171817340.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <6E1A0E9A-34D7-4D85-BD4B-CF56CE3927CA@simplicidade.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:

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> On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Mark Junker wrote:
>
> > IMHO it would be the best solution when git stores all string meta 
> > data in UTF-8 and converts it to the target systems file system 
> > encoding. That would fix all those problems with different locales and 
> > file system encodings ...
> 
> +1.

-1.

It's just too arrogant to force your particular preferences down the throat of every git user.

Ciao, Dscho

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