From: Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>,
Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan@jontes•page>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 19:45:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D96BCAD5-5482-4BD5-B22E-82D34EBC1F0A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqecmt33xk.fsf@gitster.g>
>
> Le 9 févr. 2026 à 18:14, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> a écrit :
>
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net> writes:
>
>>> On 2026-02-09 at 14:55:51, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I don't think we have any Unicode normalization code at all in Git,
>>>> though, so if you want a quality implementation, that may be a thing we
>>>> need.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Normalization is not a macOS-only issue. Many accented characters can
>> be written in multiple ways,...
>
> Yup, but that wasn't what I brought up macOS for. No sane person
> would write the same string in multiple ways on purpose and
> everybody would want to stick to one, so that byte-for-byte
> comparison can decide paths they created in the filesystem can be
> matched with a list of paths they added in .gitignore, for example.
> And for that everybody uses normalization form C, no?
>
> But the macOS makes it harder to stick to a single way when it
> involves filesystem entities; the pathname you gave to a new file
> with your creat/open(2) may be normalized in macOS specific way when
> it comes back from readdir(2). Ahd for that glitch, we massage the
> strings we got from the command line and readdir(), which are in the
> normalization form D, into normalization form C.
>
> I think the suggestion here is to assume that the users are doing
> the right thing and treat alias names (which eventually end up being
> pathname components) as bytes, and everything should be happy, even
> on macOS.
In what way do alias names end up being pathname components? Or did you mean to insert « treated like » (as in, normalized as command arguments)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-10 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-08 15:30 [RFC] Support UTF-8 characters in Git alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-08 16:07 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-02-08 23:21 ` brian m. carlson
2026-02-09 14:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-09 15:19 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-09 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-09 22:40 ` brian m. carlson
2026-02-09 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 0:45 ` Ben Knoble [this message]
2026-02-10 1:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 6:59 ` Jeff King
2026-02-09 7:36 ` Jeff King
2026-02-09 13:59 ` Theodore Tso
2026-02-09 22:01 ` [PATCH v1] alias: support UTF-8 characters via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 7:44 ` Jeff King
2026-02-10 8:30 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2026-02-10 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 18:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] support UTF-8 in alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 18:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing and lookup Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 18:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 19:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 22:29 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-23 9:29 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-23 16:07 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-23 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-23 20:25 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-24 10:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-02-10 22:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] support UTF-8 in alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 22:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-10 22:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] alias: prepare for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-10 22:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-11 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] support UTF-8 in alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-11 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-11 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-11 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] alias: prepare for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-11 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-11 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-11 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-12 11:16 ` Richard Kerry
2026-02-12 15:34 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-12 18:52 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-12 10:27 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] support UTF-8 in alias names Torsten Bögershausen
2026-02-12 15:35 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] support uTF-8 " Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] alias: prepare for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] completion: fix zsh alias listing for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-16 18:32 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-02-17 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-18 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] support UTF-8 in alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] alias: prepare for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 16:21 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-18 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 14:52 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] completion: fix zsh alias listing for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] support UTF-8 in alias names Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] help: use list_aliases() for alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 22:19 ` Jacob Keller
2026-02-24 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-25 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-26 23:33 ` Jacob Keller
2026-02-24 22:21 ` Jacob Keller
2026-02-18 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] alias: prepare for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-18 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] alias: support non-alphanumeric names via subsection syntax Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 10:55 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-24 14:48 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 23:23 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-18 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] completion: fix zsh alias listing for subsection aliases Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-19 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] support UTF-8 in alias names Junio C Hamano
2026-02-19 18:54 ` Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix small issues in alias subsection handling Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-24 19:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-24 19:14 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-24 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-24 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias] Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-26 17:00 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix small issues in alias subsection handling Junio C Hamano
2026-02-26 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-26 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example Jonatan Holmgren
2026-03-03 9:41 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-03-03 15:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] doc: fix list continuation in alias subsection example! Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-26 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] alias: treat empty subsection [alias ""] as plain [alias] Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-26 20:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] git, help: fix memory leaks in alias listing Jonatan Holmgren
2026-02-26 21:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix small issues in alias subsection handling Junio C Hamano
2026-03-03 15:12 ` [PATCH] doc: fix list continuation in alias.adoc Jonatan Holmgren
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