From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Moeller Subject: Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:16:09 +0200 Message-ID: <4BF4FDD9.9090500@math.tu-dortmund.de> References: <4BF4E40B.30205@math.tu-dortmund.de> <4BF4F7D7.60002@drmicha.warpmail.net> Reply-To: matthias.moeller@math.tu-dortmund.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 20 11:16:22 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF1ra-00053B-0w for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:16:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754813Ab0ETJQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 05:16:16 -0400 Received: from nx5.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.131.21]:29947 "EHLO nx5.hrz.uni-dortmund.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754639Ab0ETJQQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 05:16:16 -0400 Received: from mathematik.uni-dortmund.de (Hermes.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.151.250]) by nx5.hrz.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68B812D80; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:16:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [129.217.151.146] (starbuck [129.217.151.146]) by mathematik.uni-dortmund.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4K9GEPZ001443; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:16:14 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4-2.3 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <4BF4F7D7.60002@drmicha.warpmail.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/20/2010 10:50 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> Is this problem particular to Git, or do you also get it if you >> e.g. rsync from the Linux box to the Mac OS X box? >> > No, the problem with git status is not the display. Matthias' problem is > that git status reports a tracked file as untracked. The reason is that > on HFS+, you create a file with name A and get a file with name B, where > A and B are different representations of the same name. There seems to > be no way to reliably detect which one HFS+ uses. > Yes, the problem is not the display but the filesystem. I had similar problems with unison some time ago. But there was a special fix for utf-8 and Mac OS X in one of the newer unison versions. Matthias