On Jul 21, 2007, at 1:38 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
So git filenames are very much a "stream of bytes", not anything
else. And they need to sort 100% reliably, always the same way, and
never with any localized meaning.
There is some utf-8/Unicode trouble to be expected in connection with
that eventually: some, but not all operating and/or file systems
canonicalize file names, replacing accented letters by a combining
accent and the letter. But that's beside the point.
This issue exists today. OS X does a number of things to filenames,
one of which is normalizing all UTF. The resulting error is wholly
non-intuitive, but easy to solve. Git thinks both that the file
exists under the name it expects and that the file is being ignored
as the name OS X uses. The solution is to put the OS X normalized
form into .git/info/exclude. Any other solution involves platform-
dependent hackery and inclusion of Unicode libraries. I perused this
for a short while some months ago, but was convinced to leave it be.
~~ Brian
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