For what it's worth, the file looks normal in Gentoo GNU/Linux (name appears "ḋἲ╓εﮯ𒑏○╓Ӳ" and it seems to work like any other directory). On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 14/07/17 06:49, Lutz Roeder wrote: >> >> Using precomposeunicode still reproduces the issue: >> >> Repro steps: >> >> 1. Download >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0q5pbpqpckwzj7b/gitstatusrepro.zip?dl=0 >> 2. unzip gitstatusrepro.zip && cd gitstatusrepro >> 3. git reset --hard >> 4. git -c core.precomposeunicode=true status >> >> On branch master >> Untracked files: >> (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > > > A (short) investigation shows that this seems to be invalid unicode, > at least from a MacOSX point of view ? > > Unzipping your repo shows this: > git status -u > deleted: > "\341\270\213\341\274\262\342\225\223\316\265\357\256\257\360\222\221\217\342\227\213\342\225\223\323\262/test.txt" > > =============== > If I run this: > xx=$(printf > "d\314\207\316\271\314\223\314\200\342\225\223\316\265\357\256\257\360\222\221\217\342\227\213\342\225\223\320\243\314\213/") > > echo $xx | iconv -f UTF-8-MAC -t UTF-16 | xxd > > iconv: (stdin):1:5: cannot convert > 0000000: feff 1e0b 1f32 2553 03b5 fbaf .....2%S.... > =============================== > So I don't know if we can do something in Git to improve your repo. > How did you end up with such a directory name ? > And would it be possible to rename it ? > >