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

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

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Random thought.  Would it make sense to implement a git paranoid
mode to autodetect name mangling.

I.e.  After opening or creating a file by name we do a readdir in the
same directory to make certain we can find that same name/inode
combination.  Then on name-mangling systems we can autodetect they
exist and limit ourselves to just what they don't mangle with no
prior knowledge.  By refusing to process names that actively
get mangled.   For small directories that you frequently see in
development it shouldn't even be that slow.

Inside init-db where we already check how the filesystem
behaves, we could have an autodetection.

I wonder if that is good enough.  Git repositories can be copied over to 
different filesystems.

Do you mean "cp -a"?  If I am not mistaken we already have that
issue, due to core.filemode, when user does that across
filesystems with different behaviours.

There is not much we can do against "cp -a" other than telling
users that some configurations need to be adjusted.