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 17:06:33 -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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Kevin Ballard , Jakub Narebski , Mark Junker , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 02:07:18 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 1JFJDx-0006MH-Bn for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:07:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751045AbYAQBGq (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750958AbYAQBGq (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:06:46 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:44662 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750917AbYAQBGp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:06:45 -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 m0H16YYl003382 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:06:35 -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 m0H16XUe001734; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:06:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: 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, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So if you are a case-insensitive filesystem, then normalization is sane. > > Actually, no. Even an case-challenged filesystem should keep the > _original_ name around You're right. The normalization only really needs to happen as part of the name comparison itself. Linus