From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: Esko Luontola <esko.luontola@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:28:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090512182828.GA26812@dpotapov.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419AD153-53B4-4DAB-AF72-4127C17B1CA0@gmail.com>
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:06:05PM +0300, Esko Luontola wrote:
> A good start for making Git cross-platform, would be storing the text
> encoding of every file name and commit message together with the commit.
> Currently, because Git is oblivious to the encodings and just considers
> them as a series of bytes, there is no way to make them cross-platform.
1. Git already stores the endcoding for all commit messages that are not
in UTF-8.
2. If you really want to be cross-platform portable, you should not use
any characters in filenames outside of [A-Za-z0-9._-] (i.e. Portable
Filename Character Set)
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 15:06 Cross-Platform Version Control Esko Luontola
2009-05-12 15:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-12 16:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-12 17:56 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-12 20:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-12 21:16 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-13 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 5:34 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-13 6:49 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 10:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <43d8ce650905130340q596043d5g45b342b62fe20e8d@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-13 10:41 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-13 13:42 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 13:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-13 13:50 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 13:57 ` John Tapsell
2009-05-13 15:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-13 16:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 17:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-14 1:49 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-12 16:16 ` Jeff King
2009-05-12 16:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-13 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 17:31 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-13 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 18:26 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-13 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:04 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-13 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-13 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 20:57 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-13 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-13 21:30 ` Jay Soffian
2009-05-13 21:47 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-12 18:28 ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2009-05-12 18:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-12 18:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-12 21:43 ` [PATCH] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii file/usernames Heiko Voigt
2009-05-12 21:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 17:59 ` [PATCH v2] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames Heiko Voigt
2009-05-15 10:52 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-18 9:37 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 22:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-20 12:14 ` [RFC PATCH] check for filenames that only differ in case to sample pre-commit hook Heiko Voigt
2009-05-15 14:57 ` [PATCH v2] Extend sample pre-commit hook to check for non ascii filenames Jakub Narebski
2009-05-18 9:50 ` [PATCH] " Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 10:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-18 11:50 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 12:04 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-19 20:01 ` [PATCH v4] " Heiko Voigt
2009-05-18 14:42 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2009-05-18 20:35 ` Julian Phillips
2009-05-15 18:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 13:48 ` Cross-Platform Version Control Peter Krefting
2009-05-14 19:58 ` Esko Luontola
2009-05-14 20:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-14 22:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-05-15 11:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-27 8:55 Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 11:24 ` Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29 6:55 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-29 7:52 ` Cross-Platform Version Control Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29 8:25 ` Martin Langhoff
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