Subject: Re: Git, Mac OS X and German special characters

From: Matthias Moeller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:16:09 +0200

On 05/20/2010 10:50 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
>> Is this problem particular to Git, or do you also get it if you
>> e.g. rsync from the Linux box to the Mac OS X box?
>>     
> No, the problem with git status is not the display. Matthias' problem is
> that git status reports a tracked file as untracked. The reason is that
> on HFS+, you create a file with name A and get a file with name B, where
> A and B are different representations of the same name. There seems to
> be no way to reliably detect which one HFS+ uses.
>   

Yes, the problem is not the display but the filesystem. I had similar
problems with unison some time ago.
But there was a special fix for utf-8 and Mac OS X in one of the newer
unison versions.

Matthias