I'm interested if there is some document that specifies the approach of encoding non-ASCII file names used by the git and related issues. I'm particularly interested in cross-platform issues, since I'm writing plugin for cross-platform tool. My understanding based on previous discussions of the issue is that GIT saves file names as bytes in the tree objects without specifying actual encoding used. And there will be problem if different clients use different system encoding. The list of issues known to me is: 1. All Linux and Unix machines that use the same git repository should use the same encoding (ru_RU.KOI-8 and ru_RU.UTF-8 are not compatible). 2. On windows UTF-8 codepage should be specified for msys git in order to force it using UTF-8 if any cross-platform support is wanted. (I do not known about cygwin git). 3. As I understand, there is an unresolved problem with Mac OSX HFS+ case insensitive file system due to file name normalization. 4. Git log seems to ignore encoding specified on the command line when printing file names (for example in case of --name-status). Are these issues still open? Are there other issues? Regards, Constantine -- 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
