Re: Umlaut in filename makes troubles
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, rick23@gmx.net wrote:
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> I have problems with my repository under slackware vs. windows. I
> created a repo in linux and every time I use it under msysgit, the
> files containing umlauts in the filename are marked as deleted (and
> vice versa).
>
> For instance: the repo perfectly synced under msysgit leads to:
>
> user@sauron:/media/disk-2$ git status |grep Auszug
> # deleted: "trunk/007_Literatur/Auszug aus Ergonomische
> Untersuchung des Lenkgef\374hles.docx"
> # "trunk/007_Literatur/Auszug aus Ergonomische Untersuchung des
> Lenkgef\303\274hles.docx"
So the directory contains the utf-8 name, but the index contains a latin-1 name, when you wrote it under Windows and are looking at it under Linux. You probably want to use utf-8 for your repository, so that it's not specific to your locale.
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> in linux. But the file exists and is displayed correctly in the shell
> or in dolphin (my filemanager under X):
>
> user@sauron:/media/disk-2$ ls trunk/007_Literatur/Auszug*
> trunk/007_Literatur/Auszug aus Ergonomische Untersuchung des
> Lenkgefühles.docx
You've got a utf-8 filesystem, so the u-with-umlaut is the two-byte sequence git is showing in the message as being present, not the single byte that it's showing as deleted. It looks like you're actually using utf-8 for what's on the usb stick, so you probably want the names listed in the repository to match that, which means that the correct one here is Linux.
> Can you please give me a hint what to do?
Convince Windows (or msysgit) to report filenames to git in utf-8. (I don't know *how*, but that's *what* you probably want to do.)
Once you've got everything agreeing on the character set used for filenames, you can disable "core.quotepath" to make the messages appear with umlauts; if you turned that off before fixing the inconsistancy, it would be much trickier to debug, because the "deleted" line would contain something that your Linux display won't consider a valid character.
-Daniel
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