Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 19:02, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Montag, 4. Oktober 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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Is anyone thinking "unicode" around here?

My recommendation these days is that you should not use git if you care about
Unicode filenames: git is tied to POSIX in this regard, which defines
filenames as streams of *bytes*.

A SCM is all about giving meaning to streams of bytes. Just because
POSIX only says that filenames are \0-delimited blobs that doesn't
mean you can't have some annotation elsewhere that says "hey, these
blobs are in $encoding".

<insert another disclaimer here about implementing this being a huge
 task, but I'm just saying...>