From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:04:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names
Message-ID: <xmqqzf5h1ka5.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <D96BCAD5-5482-4BD5-B22E-82D34EBC1F0A@gmail.com>

Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:

> In what way do alias names end up being pathname components? Or
> did you mean to insert « treated like » (as in, normalized as
> command arguments)?

Ah, they don't.  I somehow was confusing those custom commands you
would throw into your ~/bin as "git-something" ;-).

But you're correct to point out that for a command line "git
something", "something" would go through the same "undo macOS NFD
for all argv[] elements".