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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Constantine Plotnikov <constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490902110808g47b3ce0bm24419c89b5cb4aaa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85647ef50902110356l19870259t9de22fd8827ac144@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Constantine Plotnikov
<constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 3. As I understand, there is an unresolved problem with Mac OSX HFS+
> case insensitive file system due to file name normalization.

HFS+ can be configured to be case-sensitive, though it is not by
default. However, this is only a problem if the repo contains > 1
filenames that collide in a case-insensitive filesystem, since HFS+ is
case-preserving.

The larger HFS+ problem is that it performs Unicode NFD normalization,
which is unfortunately lossy. There are some good links about the
topic here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/172383

j.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 11:56 Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git Constantine Plotnikov
2009-02-11 16:08 ` Jay Soffian [this message]

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