Subject: Re: Weird filename encoding issue

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:57:36 -0700 (PDT)

"Alexander Gladysh" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Create git repo on Windows machine, add there file, named
> "Копия.txt" (Russian for Copy.txt) in CP1251 (NOT UTF-8). Just in
> case, hopefully correctly named file is attached.
> 
> File must be added and committed from git gui, not from command line.
> 
> $ mkdir test && cd test
> $ git init
> <put file there>
> $ git gui
> 
> 2. Share the repo somewhere, so it would be accessible from OS X (repo
> should still be on Windows machine).
> 
> 3. Clone repo to OS X machine and see the weird behaviour. Git status
> can't decide how file should be named, "%CA%EE%EF%E8%FF.txt" or
> "\312\356\357\350\377.txt".

I _suspect_ that it is caused by known issue with MacOS X filesystem
in default settings.  Git assumes that what he puts in filesystem is
the same that it reads from filesystem; there is ongoing (although
bit stalled) effort to make Git work around this.  Unfortunately HFS+
does not, I think, fullfil this requirement.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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