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

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

It is relevant because the Mac OS file system stores file names as a
sequence of Unicode code points, in a (apparently slightly modified)
normalized form, whereas Git prefers to see file systems that store
file names as a sequence of octets, which may, or may not, actually map
to something that the user would call characters.

No. The *only* issue is that git doesn't normalize.

You can think of git as a UTF-8 namespace all you want, and it will work 
together wonderfully with OS X. 

Git just doesn't force-normalize the names.

You apparently prefer the text-as-sequence-of-octets, which I tend to
dislike because I would have thought computer engineers would have
evolved beyond this when we left the 1900s.

Some of us just know what we're doing, and have been working with UTF-8 
for a long time. It's not about sequence-of-octets, it's about not 
corrupting the data.

You think data should be changed behind peoples backs, potentially causing 
corruption due to unintended conversions. And I don't.

You can call me "left behind in the 1900s", but that's apparently because 
you don't understand the issues. Data corruption wasn't something that 
magically became ok just because we switched into a new century.

			Linus