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Re: OS X and umlauts in file names

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2009, 23:31 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Thomas Singer wrote:
> 
> > Basically, getting it "somehow" to work on OS X is just one minor step. 
> > IMHO Git should standardize on file names in the repository and do the 
> > platform-specific conversion independent of any locale setting, if 
> > needed.
> 
> That is contrary to the design of Git which honors content (byte-wise!) as 
> much as possible, and treats file names very much as content.
> 
> There were beginnings of supporting OSX' brain-damaged filename mangling, 
> but an obnoxious OSX fan worked very hard on trying to defend the OSX 
> design and to decry Git's respect for the raw bytes on this list, so hard 
> that even the nicest developers had no fun working on this issue anymore.
> 
> This little background may help you understand why there is no solution 
> implemented in Git yet.  And maybe quite a few developers are reluctant to 
> discuss the issue and possible solutions due to said sad story, too.

To be more exact the problem is not that MacOS X uses denormalized form (does file mangling). This would be the problem only in cross-platform development (where some developers would work from different operating system).

The problem is that the name under which Git creates file is different from the name MacOS X lists file (in readdir etc.).

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Thomas SingerNov 23, 2009
  2. Thomas RastNov 23, 2009
  3. Thomas SingerNov 23, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinNov 23, 2009
  5. Thomas SingerNov 23, 2009
  6. Jakub NarebskiNov 23, 2009
  7. Martin LanghoffNov 23, 2009
  8. Daniel BarkalowNov 23, 2009
  9. Thomas SingerNov 25, 2009
  10. B Smith-MannschottNov 25, 2009
  11. Martin LanghoffNov 25, 2009
  12. Martin LanghoffNov 25, 2009
  13. Andreas SchwabNov 25, 2009
  14. Thomas SingerNov 26, 2009
  15. Jay SoffianNov 26, 2009
  16. Thomas SingerNov 27, 2009
  17. Thomas SingerNov 27, 2009
  18. Martin LanghoffNov 27, 2009
  19. Thomas SingerNov 27, 2009
  20. Jay SoffianNov 26, 2009

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