Re: OS X and umlauts in file names

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Singer
> <thomas.singer@syntevo.com> wrote:
>>  toms-mac-mini:git-umlauts tom$ git stage "U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt"
>>  fatal: pathspec 'U\314\210berla\314\210nge.txt' did not match any files
>
> does a find * | xargs git add work?

Also, you can try with `find * -print0 | git-update-index --add
--stdin -z `. Find should report the exact filename that the OS has,
and git should add it as it is.

Background: git-add used to be a trivial shell script wrapping around
git-update-index. If you have a git checkout, try:

 git show f25933987f29070e9cd79dfddf03018010e82e80:git-add.sh

If git cannot track this file in a pure OSX world, there is a good
chance it's a bug in git.

In in this narrow test case (single machine, running OSX) git *must*
be able to do the right thing. If you work on multi-platform projects
however, there is a good chance a Windows or Linux user will commit a
file with a name that _when you checkout on OSX_, OSX will save with a
different (but "equivalent") name due to its funny decomposition
rules. And all sorts of "fun" will ensue.

cheers,


m
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