From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:43:16 +1300 Message-ID: <46a038f90801211343q4a36195dp319beb3020e57600@mail.gmail.com> References: <478E1FED.5010801@web.de> <440E4426-BFB5-4836-93DF-05C99EF204E6@sb.org> <373E260A-6786-4932-956A-68706AA7C469@sb.org> <7EB98659-4036-45DA-BD50-42CB23ED517A@sb.org> <46a038f90801211317v4902ffd3ic8ccc35f8df72bd9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Peter Karlsson" , "Mark Junker" , "Pedro Melo" , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: "Kevin Ballard" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 21 22:44:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JH4Qq-0008AY-MJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:43:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753688AbYAUVnT (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:43:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753887AbYAUVnT (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:43:19 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:30520 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753677AbYAUVnS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:43:18 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so959602ugc.16 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:43:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=c1ZdFyZWqK3oajV5diieKTY2rDN4a2naLzuQNkbFYKk=; b=ZslkOmiXs+mMfGnltmOOQ1ZT6ehyhF8ib+ScBnR7TdVD7l85+dkJSVDEwVGuokL9GRFBgHxLkkB7rt/23Ox4SeVYYxm4hCWG1xtoevZ8Fk/Ub+NmZ0H2ZlOC3/YLs5h52iNh7hJjL3gDNueL3lmRG82EsbGyBz0fTU2c4IlVrpA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pvfsgCWpLXaPdpguHK/LMDZVsrqr06ZtdldXKE09oT2bLiadKLcZ0qAC1/fhofDo+4dMbLVLdP/cY2Pgd/x7Cxs6h0/iaN8ZC2xuPqsIsJOLKlQZxRT1mkxLSSQi+VgyecIrYNYSrVhyi8AoNGyK+X603tHPB3t40Bv9ccZvavM= Received: by 10.66.252.18 with SMTP id z18mr5250029ugh.37.1200951796678; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.252.2 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:43:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Jan 22, 2008 10:28 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote: > That's certainly a reasonable POV. However, it's not the only one. As > evidenced by the Mac, treating filenames as strings rather than bytes > is a viable alternative POV - you can't argue that it doesn't work, > because OS X proves it does. With its own slew of bugs. See Ted's reply earlier for a mouthful of woe in HFS+ that is not easy to workaround. > Perhaps you should try OS X. Every single Cocoa app should do the OSX has given me enough grief with other filesystem and general OS problems that I have definitely abandoned it after 2 years trying to use it part-time. It has been back to linux for me ;-) cheers, martin