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

On Jan 22, 2008 4:04 PM, Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] wrote:

Again, I don't think that's the correct solution. What about the
translation table that was suggested back at the beginning of the
thread? That would solve the case insensitivity issue as well, whereas
this NFC "solution" does nothing for that.

Kevin,

you seem to know the problem fairly well. Could you write up a set of
testcases that show the bug? See the "t" directory in the git sources
-- you don't need to learn much about git internals, they are just
shell scripts (mostly, I think there's some perl there too). That
could lead to a good contribution to the project.

... and keep you from telling everyone else that you know better how
to hack a project that you know nothing about ;-)

(...)

So, what, you're saying git shouldn't do any work at all to try and
behave nicer on OS X?

Kevin - for your edification, that question is usually referred to as
"trolling" in this place we call the internet. Linus outlined what his
technical plan is, so git will probably do something designed by
someone who knows a thing or two about git's internals. So when you
pretend that he is saying the opposite of what he is saying... well,
people do get upset.

cheers,


m