Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Junker wrote: > > > > > I have some files like "Lüftung.txt" in my repository. The strange > > > thing is that I can pull / add / commit / push those files without > > > problem but git-status always complains that thoes files are > > > untraced (but not missing). > > > > This is a known problem. Unfortunately, noone has implemented a fix, > > although if you're serious about it, I can point you to threads where > > it has been hinted how to solve the issue. > > > > FWIW the issue is that Mac OS X decides that it knows better how to > > encode your filename than you could yourself. > > More like, Mac OS X has standardized on Unicode and the rest of the > world hasn't caught up yet. Git is the only tool I've ever heard of that > has a problem with OS X using Unicode. No. That's not at all the problem. Mac OS X insists on storing _another_ encoding of your filename. Both are UTF-8. Both encode the _same_ string. Yet they are different, bytewise. For no good reason. Stop spreading FUD. Git can handle Unicode just fine. In fact, Git does not _care_ how the filename is encoded, it _respects_ the user's choice, not only of the encoding _type_, but the _encoding_, too. Okay? Hth, Dscho
