Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com> writes:

> So here's what I can see as being useful additions to git:
> ...
> Thoughts (besides "patches welcomed")?

I think we already discussed a plan to store normalization
mapping in the index extension section and use it to avoid
getting confused by readdir(3) that lies to us.  Is there any
more thing that need to be discussed?

I would presume that we would still add _new_ paths using the
pathname we receive from the user (there is no need for us to be
similarly insane as broken "normalizing" filesystems), but when
deciding if a path is new or we already have it in the index
would be done by seeing if an entry already exists in the index
whose "normalized" form is the same as the "normalized" form of
the given path --- that way we would not add two paths to the
index that would "normalize" to the same string.