Re: OS X and umlauts in file names

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Hi,

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Thomas Singer wrote:

> Basically, getting it "somehow" to work on OS X is just one minor step. 
> IMHO Git should standardize on file names in the repository and do the 
> platform-specific conversion independent of any locale setting, if 
> needed.

That is contrary to the design of Git which honors content (byte-wise!) as 
much as possible, and treats file names very much as content.

There were beginnings of supporting OSX' brain-damaged filename mangling, 
but an obnoxious OSX fan worked very hard on trying to defend the OSX 
design and to decry Git's respect for the raw bytes on this list, so hard 
that even the nicest developers had no fun working on this issue anymore.

This little background may help you understand why there is no solution 
implemented in Git yet.  And maybe quite a few developers are reluctant to 
discuss the issue and possible solutions due to said sad story, too.

Ciao,
Dscho
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