Re: Bug: pull --rebase with é in name

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:59:16AM +0100, René Haber wrote:

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I'm having trouble with the following scenario:
My name contains an é with accent. Having set
git config --global user.name "René Haber"
and several commits with that name in a project.

That should work in general, but...

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git pull --rebase
[...]
/sw/lib/git-core/git-am: line 675: Haber: command not found

The problem lies in .git/rebase-apply/author-script :

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Rene'́ Haber
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='rene@habr.de'
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@1330931169 +0100'

That's definitely not right.

I can't seem to reproduce it here with a simple test (neither with
"René" in the author name, nor with an author name containing
single-quote). What version of git are you using (it looks like a recent
one, as it has the magic @-date syntax). Have you set
i18n.commitencoding, or are otherwise using an encoding besides utf8? Is
it possible to share the commits that trigger this bug?

Also, can you post a hex dump of the config that defines user.name (try
'xxd ~/.gitconfig'), so we can see the encoding of René?

I find it pretty odd that Git manages to split the ´ from the e, so I'm
wondering if perhaps you are using UTF-8 in NFD or similar.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch