Re: Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Constantine Plotnikov
[off-list ref] wrote:

3. As I understand, there is an unresolved problem with Mac OSX HFS+
case insensitive file system due to file name normalization.

HFS+ can be configured to be case-sensitive, though it is not by
default. However, this is only a problem if the repo contains > 1
filenames that collide in a case-insensitive filesystem, since HFS+ is
case-preserving.

The larger HFS+ problem is that it performs Unicode NFD normalization,
which is unfortunately lossy. There are some good links about the
topic here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172383

j.