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

On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

[ Not just for filenames, by the way - this is one of the reasons I  
think
 it is so *important* to not corrupt filenames, exactly because this  
is
 in no way filename-specific at all, and filenames are generally  
"textual
 data" exactly the same way a text-file is.

I just don't understand why you insist that the filename is data, when  
it is clearly metadata. The filename has two purposes: the identify  
the file to the user, and to provide a handle with which to reference  
the file contents. The specific byte sequence is in no way sacred.

-Kevin Ballard

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