Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

Hi,

On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is  
sane.

Actually, no.  Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the
_original_ name around, if only for the exact same argument you used
earlier: if the user chooses to capitalise some letters, but not  
others,
it is not the filesystem's place to "correct" that.

For the record, HFS+ is case-insensitive but case-preserving so I  
believe they keep the original filename around. I don't have the spec  
in front of me, but from memory I believe that this is what they do.

But I think that focusing on HFS+ is loosing sight of the real  
problem. It's not about encoding at the filesystem, but encoding  
inside the git structures.

Best regards,
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Pedro Melo
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