Re: Cross-Platform Version Control

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Hi,

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:14:03AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > As for file names, no plans, its a sequence of bytes, but I think a 
> > lot of people wind up using some subset of US-ASCII for their file 
> > names, especially if their project is going to be cross platform.
> 
> Or they use a single encoding like utf8 so that there are no surprises. 
> You can still run into normalization problems with filenames on some 
> filesystems, though.  Linus's name_hash code sets up the framework to 
> handle "these two names are actually equivalent", but right now I think 
> there is just code for handling case-sensitivity, not utf8 normalization 
> (but I just skimmed the code, so I might be wrong).

Back then I actually started on a patch to make Git capable of determining 
UTF-8 equivalence, but at the same time somebody started such an annoying 
mail thread that I stopped working on the issue completely.

Ciao,
Dscho

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