Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/4] git check-ref-format --print

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

In the future, it would be very nice if this command could be
modified to transform Unicode ref names to some appropriate
normalization form, to make Unicode ref names usable in Mac OS X,
too, and less confusing everywhere.

I do not disagree with a desire to help fixing the unicode insanity on
that platform, but I suspect that check-ref-format is a wrong place to
tackle the issue.  You would need a similar filter for outputs from the
likes of ls-files and "diff --name-only", iow, anything that deal with
pathnames, no?

It would have be something like "check-ref-format --print | iconv ..."
pipeline (conceptually, if not forcing the pipeline to the end users, that
is).

Also are people happy with "--print"?  I was waiting for others to reword
it to "--normalize" or something like that.  In your documentation you
explain it to "canonicalize", and in your tests you name the output
"normalized".  I am fine with either wording, but would like to see us
using only one, not both.

Thanks.