From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Soffian Subject: Re: Q: description of file name encoding approach used by git Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:48 -0500 Message-ID: <76718490902110808g47b3ce0bm24419c89b5cb4aaa@mail.gmail.com> References: <85647ef50902110356l19870259t9de22fd8827ac144@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Constantine Plotnikov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 11 17:11:06 2009 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 1LXHfk-0007eE-NT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:10:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757660AbZBKQIu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757646AbZBKQIu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:50 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.225]:9813 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757631AbZBKQIt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:08:49 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g37so7606rvb.1 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TcycQTnlb8hOJrHLc5GqS6fOJsDVb79K84GpfOOs9ew=; b=Nk1ZKnSqYpfmejfLruQ3rHqxjgTnP3bAHO3OeTSEsG4KPAReT/aQbod4Vl61nIK5Za ETqmsNn+JZpZe6sP5k1onHX6w+lxd6DSF470YWaC5kr7JO7sxkAaVy/SmZhZSA4wMy5v rHkWfZ280FlOlvOe+VfgagnBcOwkuhPRCEiE8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q3WCRN+PyCxg03P7cZ/6OC+br0JBZsffqutMYkopiy7kq7YFoBzAQzfJArRFeCYUDX P+5oEuNjJiJvgiYYw5c2vlUySMxxrkx5tZXhzpSChNsAzQHCUqsVbCr/Z1qbgTbKFvm4 fkuDG//N9AplNE0CPin58Gf27/FnEKKfOjirU= Received: by 10.141.71.21 with SMTP id y21mr5657716rvk.0.1234368528291; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <85647ef50902110356l19870259t9de22fd8827ac144@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Constantine Plotnikov 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.