Re: On pathnames

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 25, 2008, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801251137030.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7ae7dcb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>     $ edit Märchen ;# assume this is a new file
>     $ git add Märchen ;# we were told that IM gives $B (aka NFC)

Please see the discussion on IRC I started with

http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2008-01-25,Fri&sel=16#l36

(asking for somebody to test the issue if filenames are still mangled when the volume was created _case-sensitive_). The interesting part is this:

http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2008-01-25,Fri&sel=31#l56

(me asking to git-add the file "Märchen" explicitely),

http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2008-01-25,Fri&sel=39#l66

(dsymonds saying that no untracked files are shown), and

http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2008-01-25,Fri&sel=47#l76

(dsymonds showing that the git index contains the mangled filename, _not_ what we asked for). The strange thing is that

http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2008-01-25,Fri&sel=57#l89

the command line seems not to be mangling the name.

Summary:

it seems that for some strange reason, "git add Märchen" puts the mangled filename into the index, even if "echo Märchen" shows the unmangled filename.

Ciao, Dscho