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

On Jan 19, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote:

On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:04, Kevin Ballard wrote:

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The main problem with this approach is you know for certain that  
using HFSX as the boot partition is barely tested by Apple, and  
certainly untested by third-party apps. This means the potential  
for breakage is extremely high.

No, actually, HFSX boot partitions are fairly well tested by Apple  
and most 3rd-party programs.  I had one for a while and the only  
problems I encountered were with programs ported from Windows  
without Mac versions, such as "Microsoft Office for Mac" and "World  
of Warcraft".  "Quake 4" has a few quirks which are easily worked  
around.

Perhaps the big name companies might do some testing on HFSX, but I  
can guarantee most third-party programs will not be tested under HFSX.

Also, World of Warcraft isn't a ported program. It was developed for  
the Mac concurrently with the Windows version. Same with MS Office -  
it's an entirely different team (the Mac BU) developing MS Office for  
Mac independently of the Windows version, not a porting job. However,  
if you're saying these two big-name programs had problems, I wouldn't  
be surprised to see many more problems on various other third-party  
apps from smaller companies.

In any case, "just use HFSX" is still not an appropriate solution to  
the problem, especially since that will only take care of case  
sensitivity and not the utf-8 stuff.

-Kevin Ballard

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