On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:43:54AM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote: > I agree. Every single problem that I can recall Linus bringing up as a > consequence of HFS+ treating filenames as strings is in fact only a > problem if you then think of the filename as octets at some point. If you > stick with UTF-8 equivalence comparison the entire time, then everything > just works. Git's data model relies on SHA-1 hashing of data, including filenames. So at some level, git _has_ to treat data as octets, and "equivalent" strings must be the same at the octet level (or else you lose all of the useful properties that the hashing data model provides). You can argue about where in the program conversion and normalization occur, but I don't think you can get around the fact that you're going to need to think of the "filename as octets at some point." -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
