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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 18, 2008, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801182042360.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6gedgk9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> >> 
> >> But they are not different strings, they are canonically equivalent as
> >> far as Unicode is concerned.
> >
> > Fuck me with a spoon.
> >
> > Why the hell cannot people see that "equivalent" and "same" are two 
> > totally different meanings.
> 
> Could people _please_ stop this already?

Welcome, voice of reason.

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> I think the sane people see the difference between equivalence
> and sameness, and we established that a filesystem that mangles
> the filenames behind user's back is a bad design.  Anybody who
> followed the thread and still does not agree with you is, eh,
> "ugly-and-stupid", as you might say ;-).  You cannot educate
> them all.

Actually, I see some value in calling them names, see http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 for why.

> The thing is, even if you mange to educate them all, that broken 
> filesystem, and other filesystems with similar brokenness, do not go 
> away.

I was almost starting with hacking on this, but then the discussion annoyed me too much, and I asked myself for who I think I'd do this.

IMHO those people should ask "how could I begin to work on this".

Instead, they started a useless flamewar.

Now, back to the issue: Robin posted a link to his UTF-8 work. While it is way too intrusive, and not limited to filenames at all, I think it has a few good pointers.

Ciao, Dscho "who needs to calm down now"