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

On Jan 22, 2008 10:28 AM, Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] wrote:

That's certainly a reasonable POV. However, it's not the only one. As
evidenced by the Mac, treating filenames as strings rather than bytes
is a viable alternative POV - you can't argue that it doesn't work,
because OS X proves it does.

With its own slew of bugs. See Ted's reply earlier for a mouthful of
woe in HFS+ that is not easy to workaround.

Perhaps you should try OS X. Every single Cocoa app should do the

OSX has given me enough grief with other filesystem and general OS
problems that I have definitely abandoned it after 2 years trying to
use it part-time. It has been back to linux for me ;-)

cheers,



martin