Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

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Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is sane.

Actually, no.  Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the 
_original_ name around, if only for the exact same argument you used 
earlier: if the user chooses to capitalise some letters, but not others, 
it is not the filesystem's place to "correct" that.

Ciao,
Dscho

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