# gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis 2 messages from 2007-04-09 to 2007-04-09. Participants: Geert Bosch, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7587 ## Geert Bosch, 2007-04-09 19:13 Subject: gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/FBFBF002-4887-4216-9CF0-42407E93045C%40adacore.com ``` In the git repository, after git checkout -f: potomac:~/git%git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) ... # gitweb/test/Märchen potomac:~/git%rm gitweb/test/Ma\314\210rchen potomac:~/git%git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) # # deleted: gitweb/test/Märchen Aaaarghh!! There seems something inconsistent in the encoding of the ä letter that confuses git on my Mac OS X system. My environment has LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set, in case that matters. Filename completion results in Ma\314\210rchen, but the index encodes it as M\303\244rchen: 0107272 g i t w e b / t e s t / M ? ? r 147 151 164 167 145 142 057 164 145 163 164 057 115 303 244 162 The filesystem seems to be fine with either: potomac:~/git%ls -l gitweb/test/Ma\314\210rchen gitweb/test/M\303 \244rchen -rw-r--r-- 1 bosch staff 17 2007-04-09 14:51 gitweb/test/Märchen -rw-r--r-- 1 bosch staff 17 2007-04-09 14:51 gitweb/test/Märchen Anybody has insights in what causes this? Thanks in advance! -Geert ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-04-09 19:18 Subject: Re: gitweb/test/Märchen has an identity crisis Message-ID: <20070409191820.GA5436@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070409191820.GA5436%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Geert Bosch wrote: > # On branch master > # Changed but not updated: > # (use "git add/rm ..." to update what will be committed) > # > # deleted: gitweb/test/Märchen > > Aaaarghh!! There seems something inconsistent in the encoding > of the ä letter that confuses git on my Mac OS X system. > My environment has LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set, in case that matters. This has been discussed on the list in the past. Mac OS X does a bad thing here; it is normalizating the UTF-8 encoding in a different way than Git supplied the encoding. This is apparently done to support its other bad feature, case insensitive filesystems. ;-) Basically what Git gave Mac OS X during an open() syscall is not what it gets back during a readdir() because the filesystem changed the byte sequence on us. Yea, not cute. I think I stuck the byte sequence Mac OS X is supplying into my .git/info/exclude and the problem went away... -- Shawn. ```