From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:19:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <478E1FED.5010801@web.de> <65026F2B-5CE8-4238-A9AB-D3545D336B41@sb.org> <200801162251.54219.jnareb@gmail.com> <1574A90A-8C45-46AD-9402-34AE6F582B3F@sb.org> <7652B11D-9B9F-45EA-9465-8294B701FE7C@sb.org> <85ir1tpbk8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Kevin Ballard , Jakub Narebski , Johannes Schindelin , Mark Junker , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 01:29:47 2008 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 1JFIdb-0003wf-4s for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:29:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752554AbYAQA3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:29:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752450AbYAQA3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:29:12 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:52847 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752484AbYAQA3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:29:11 -0500 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m0H0SnWq001958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:28:50 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m0H0JUA7032309; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:19:31 -0800 In-Reply-To: <85ir1tpbk8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.715 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, David Kastrup wrote: > > Actually, there is no good reason for non-normalized forms (deficient > software not able to deal with some of the normalized forms is not a > good reason: such software should be fixed). I'd actually agree, and it then boils down to the second sane choice I gave earlier: - don't accept data you don't like if you don't like non-normalized names, don't create them. That's fine. But don't go normalizing them behind the users back. > Yup. But that does not mean that normalization is a bad idea. It is > just that the filesystem is not the right place for it. Oh, absolutely. You can - and often should - normalize in the application (or have libraries to do it for you). Not silently and behind peoples backs. Linus