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Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jonatan Holmgren Cc: "brian m. carlson" , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names In-Reply-To: (Jonatan Holmgren's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:19:55 +0100") References: <3124b359-2929-4f3f-9ac6-793277fe422b@jontes.page> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:59:31 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jonatan Holmgren writes: > Thanks for chiming in! > > > Isn't NKC/NKD a macOS-only issue in practice? Anything on the > > command line "git" potty and "git-blah" built-in commands receive > > goes through precompose_argv_prefix() to be normalized on that > > platform. > > If we use Jeff's proposed alias.*.{keyname} approach with literal byte > matching macOS should already handle the normalization at the argv level > before Git even sees it, correct? I'm not very familiar with how macOS > handles this. I may have phrased it poorly, but the above (with Peff's syntax change, which I think is independently a good thing to do) is exactly what I meant. That way, we do not have to worry about normalization ourselves at all in this area. Thanks.