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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git
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Joshua Jensen wrote:

> I do not know about other file systems and what Git actually
> handles.  I was under the impression it didn't handle Unicode
> filenames well in general... ?

Except in cases like ignorecase handling, git treats path components
as arbitrary streams of bytes ('\0' and path separators are forbidden,
of course).  It works pretty well if that's what you need.