I'm running git 1.7.9.2 from Fink Project on MacOS X 10.6. The gitconfig in hex is attached. I'm not using i18n.commitencoding or a charset different from utf8. Thanks. René
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Am 05.03.2012 um 11:37 schrieb Thomas Rast:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:59:16AM +0100, René Haber wrote:
>>
>>> 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...
>>
>>> 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@xxxxxxx'
>>> 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
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