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

On Jan 22, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:

quoted

I'd also recommend that the Mac OS X code try to either figure out
whether it is running on an HFS+ partition, or let the HFS+  
workaround
code be something that can be controlled via .git/config.  It
shouldn't be on unconditionally even on a Mac OS X system, since if
the git repository is on a ZFS or NFS filesystem, there's no reason  
to
pay the overhead of working around the HFS+ bugs.

One thing I'd like somebody to check: what _does_ happen with OS X  
and NFS
(OS X as a client, not server)? In particular:

- Is it suddenly sane and case-sensitive?

- Does the NFS client do any unicode conversion?

I tried to google for it, but didn't find the right keywords to get
anything useful out of that modern-day internet oracle.

Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak:

quoted

Here's one further question: How does OS X behave as an NFS client?  
Does it do any unicode normalization? Is it case-sensitive?

No conversions are done.. the MacOS X nfs client just sends
whatever string it was passed to the server.  If I connect
to a MacOS X server exporting an HFS file system, I can
"touch FOO" and then "rm foo" and the rm will work.

-Kevin Ballard

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