From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Singer Subject: Re: OS X and umlauts in file names Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:35:50 +0100 Message-ID: <4B101C06.1030300@syntevo.com> References: <4B0ABA42.1060103@syntevo.com> <4B0CEFCA.5020605@syntevo.com> <76718490911260927h9ff796bgbebcccab7e52ffbe@mail.gmail.com> <4B0FA388.4030507@syntevo.com> <4B0FA7D7.1050302@syntevo.com> <46a038f90911270256w57487e6cq9bda8b98a5384799@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Soffian , Daniel Barkalow , git@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 27 19:34:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NE5ef-0000OA-GD for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:34:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752960AbZK0Sel (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:34:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752461AbZK0Sel (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:34:41 -0500 Received: from syntevo.com ([85.214.39.145]:57661 "EHLO syntevo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbZK0Sek (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:34:40 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id 5317437C739 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90911270256w57487e6cq9bda8b98a5384799@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: > have you tried calling git-update-index --add > --stdin -z? Your original email stated No, we don't do such a massive change immediately before a release. >> we've got a problem report regarding our SmartGit GUI client > > so it sounds like you are building a porcelain. In that case, the > sanest approach is to invoke git-update-index and write to its stdin. We will try this out after release. For those who are interested: I've got it working on OS X and Git was not the problem, but Java. A longer time ago directory.list() or directory.listFiles() returned the file names with decomposed characters (as they are stored on OS X hard disk). Now (don't know which Java update introduced this change) these methods return file names with composed characters, so I had to decompose them before handing them to the git executable call. Nevertheless, the cross-platform-problem remains: if you add files with umlauts in their names on non-OS X, you will not be able to use them on OS X. -- Tom