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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html