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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 19, 2008, 22:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801192256480.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801191026500.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, there is, if you care to do something. You can write a 
> > wrapper around readdir(3) that will recodes filenames in Unicode 
> > Normal Forms C.
> 
> If somebody wants to do this, then readdir() isn't the only place, but 
> yes, readdir() is one of the places.
> 
> I suspect that if we were to just do the "turn into NFC on readdir() on 
> OS X", that might actually be good enough to hide most of the problems.

I think a better approach would be to try to match the name to what we have in the index. Then we could implement case-insensitivity and MacOSX workaround at the same time.

Ciao, Dscho