Re: [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2026, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy0l14x30.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <c3445fa2-a217-4e48-b0d0-ad41a563c6c4@jontes.page>

Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes.page> writes:

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> Thanks for chiming in!
>
>  > Isn't NKC/NKD a macOS-only issue in practice?  Anything on the
>  > command line "git" potty and "git-blah" built-in commands receive
>  > goes through precompose_argv_prefix() to be normalized on that
>  > platform.
>
> If we use Jeff's proposed alias.*.{keyname} approach with literal byte
> matching macOS should already handle the normalization at the argv level 
> before Git even sees it, correct? I'm not very familiar with how macOS 
> handles this.

I may have phrased it poorly, but the above (with Peff's syntax change, which I think is independently a good thing to do) is exactly what I meant. That way, we do not have to worry about normalization ourselves at all in this area.

Thanks.