From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>,
Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:17:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdiLRDBchYiZedATPS5ct0nSa6CahxuZiTk3x0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010042102.31336.j6t@kdbg.org>
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 19:02, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
> On Montag, 4. Oktober 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>> Is anyone thinking "unicode" around here?
>
> My recommendation these days is that you should not use git if you care about
> Unicode filenames: git is tied to POSIX in this regard, which defines
> filenames as streams of *bytes*.
A SCM is all about giving meaning to streams of bytes. Just because
POSIX only says that filenames are \0-delimited blobs that doesn't
mean you can't have some annotation elsewhere that says "hey, these
blobs are in $encoding".
<insert another disclaimer here about implementing this being a huge
task, but I'm just saying...>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-03 4:32 [PATCH v2 0/6] Extensions of core.ignorecase=true support Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case variable Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 8:30 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:07 ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 0/8] ab/icase-directory: jj/icase-directory with Makefile + configure checks Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 1/8] Makefile & configure: add a NO_FNMATCH flag Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 2/8] Makefile & configure: add a NO_FNMATCH_CASEFOLD flag Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 17:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-04 2:48 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 3/8] Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 4/8] Case insensitivity support for .gitignore via core.ignorecase Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 5/8] Add case insensitivity support for directories when using git status Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 6/8] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 11:54 ` Thomas Adam
2010-10-03 18:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-03 21:59 ` Thomas Adam
2010-10-04 7:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 8:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-04 14:03 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-04 14:58 ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-04 17:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 16:02 ` Robin Rosenberg
2010-10-04 16:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-04 16:48 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-04 16:49 ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-04 17:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 17:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-04 19:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-04 19:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 7/8] Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=true Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-03 9:56 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 8/8] Support case folding in git fast-import " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-07 4:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Add string comparison functions that respect the ignore_case variable Junio C Hamano
2010-10-07 5:48 ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Case insensitivity support for .gitignore via core.ignorecase Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Add case insensitivity support for directories when using git status Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] Add case insensitivity support when using git ls-files Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Support case folding for git add when core.ignorecase=true Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 4:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Support case folding in git fast-import " Joshua Jensen
2010-10-03 13:00 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-03 8:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Extensions of core.ignorecase=true support Johannes Sixt
2010-10-03 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-03 11:48 ` Robert Buck
2010-10-03 18:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-06 22:04 ` Robert Buck
2010-10-06 22:46 ` Joshua Jensen
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