Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:58:18 +0100

Kevin Ballard <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Jan 21, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:

>>> It does? Why on earth should it do that? Filename doesn't
>>> contribute to the
>>> listed filesize on OS X.
>>
>> Umm. What's this inability to see that data is data is data?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. I stated a fact - at least on OS X, the
> filename does not contribute to the listed filesize, so changing the
> encoding of the filename doesn't change the filesize. This isn't a
> philosophical point, it's a factual statement.

Changing the encoding of the file name most certainly changes the
file size of the directory.

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