git and cyrillic branches

> hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of
> branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote
> branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
> 1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on
> remote server it does)
> 2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be resolved
> to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly" thanks.

> On 2013-07-25 14.19, иванов иван wrote:
>
>>  hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
>>  1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on remote server it does)
>>  2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be resolved to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly"
>>  thanks.
>
> It could be helpful if you could provide more information.
> The best could be a step-by-step instruction using a some "mini repo",
> so that we we can reproduce the problem.
> I have done an illustrating example using UTF-8,
> (not cyrillic, I don't have these letters on my keyboard ;-)
>
> tb@linux:~$ mkdir cyrill
> tb@linux:~$ cd cyrill/
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/tb/cyrill/.git/
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ echo File>File
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git checkout -b bränch
> Switched to a new branch 'bränch'
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git add File
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git commit -m "Add File"
> [bränch (root-commit) e39d84e] Add File
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 100644 "File"
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$ git branch
> * bränch
> tb@linux:~/cyrill$
>
> tb@macos:~> git clone tb@linux:~/cyrill
> Cloning into 'cyrill'...
> tb@linux's password:
> remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
> Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
> remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> tb@macos:~> cd cyrill/
> tb@macos:~/cyrill> git branch
> * bränch
> tb@macos:~/cyrill> ls -l
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--  1 tb  staff  6 Jul 26 03:39 File
> tb@macos:~/cyrill>
>
> ===================
> Other question:
> what does (on Mac OS)
> git config core.precomposeunicode
> give you?
> /Torsten

> >>  hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of
> >>  branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote
> >>  branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
> >>  1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on
> >>  remote server it does)
> >>  2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be
> >> resolved to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up
> >> unexpectedly" thanks.
> >
> > Works for me across two Debian systems: both have Git 1.7.10.4; user
> > accounts on both systems have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 configured in their
> > environment.
> >
> > Do both of your systems (local and remote) have an UTF-8-enabled (or
> > encoding-agnostic, like "C") locale active?
>
> oh, yes indeed. i was pushing from mac to ubuntu, but ubuntu to
> ubuntu works fine. although #locale gives almost identical output, so
> it is something to work out. спасибо за помощь! 25.07.2013, 16:45,

> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:06:41 +0400
> ксовиран <xowirun@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
>>>>   hello! there is problem vith git and cyrillic (utf-8) names of
>>>>   branches. branch creates perfectly, but when i clone this remote
>>>>   branch to local host, there are 2 bugs:
>>>>   1) "git branch" doesnt show checked branch with asterisk (while on
>>>>   remote server it does)
>>>>   2) "git push" gives 2 errors: "fatal: BRANCH_NAME cannot be
>>>>  resolved to branch." and "fatal: The remote end hung up
>>>>  unexpectedly" thanks.
>>>  Works for me across two Debian systems: both have Git 1.7.10.4; user
>>>  accounts on both systems have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 configured in their
>>>  environment.
>>>
>>>  Do both of your systems (local and remote) have an UTF-8-enabled (or
>>>  encoding-agnostic, like "C") locale active?
>>  oh, yes indeed. i was pushing from mac to ubuntu, but ubuntu to
>>  ubuntu works fine. although #locale gives almost identical output, so
>>  it is something to work out. спасибо за помощь! 25.07.2013, 16:45,
>
> I'm afraid, this might be not that simple: Git received certain tweaks
> to work around certain problems Mac OS X has (as I understand it) with
> handling UTF-8 on various filesystems it supports; in particular, see
> commits 76759c7dff53e8c84e975b88cb8245587c14c7ba [1]
> and b856ad623e4f686815986c0b9341dd1bfd791e71 [2] which were released as
> part of v1.7.12.
>
> So... I'm not sure, but I beleive these fixes might have been related to
> handling filenames in the work tree and the index only, not branches, as
> having branches with non-ASCII names is a weird idea to most
> developers, I think.  So the question is: do you have Git >= 1.7.12 on
> your Mac OS X machine?  If so, do you still experience this problem (I
> think that Macs do not have non-UTF-8 locales anyway, so this is
> unlikely the root cause).
>
> P.S.
> Please don't top-post as this breaks discussion flow and hence sucks.
>
> 1. https://github.com/git/git/commit/76759c7
> 2. https://github.com/git/git/commit/b856ad6

> > I'm afraid, this might be not that simple: Git received certain
> > tweaks to work around certain problems Mac OS X has (as I
> > understand it) with handling UTF-8 on various filesystems it
> > supports; in particular, see commits
> > 76759c7dff53e8c84e975b88cb8245587c14c7ba [1] and
> > b856ad623e4f686815986c0b9341dd1bfd791e71 [2] which were released as
> > part of v1.7.12.