Re: Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Constantine Plotnikov
<constantine.plotnikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 3. As I understand, there is an unresolved problem with Mac OSX HFS+
> case insensitive file system due to file name normalization.

HFS+ can be configured to be case-sensitive, though it is not by
default. However, this is only a problem if the repo contains > 1
filenames that collide in a case-insensitive filesystem, since HFS+ is
case-preserving.

The larger HFS+ problem is that it performs Unicode NFD normalization,
which is unfortunately lossy. There are some good links about the
topic here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172383

j.
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