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

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Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, there is, if you care to do something. You can write a 
> > wrapper around readdir(3) that will recodes filenames in Unicode 
> > Normal Forms C.
> 
> If somebody wants to do this, then readdir() isn't the only place, but 
> yes, readdir() is one of the places.
> 
> I suspect that if we were to just do the "turn into NFC on readdir() on 
> OS X", that might actually be good enough to hide most of the problems.

I think a better approach would be to try to match the name to what we 
have in the index.  Then we could implement case-insensitivity and MacOSX 
workaround at the same time.

Ciao,
Dscho

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