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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t3910: show failure of core.precomposeunicode with decomposed filenames
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:12:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbtskqjv.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140428161630.GA9435@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:16:31 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> This patch just adds a test to demonstrate the breakage.
> Some possible fixes are:
>
>   1. Tell everyone that NFD in the git repo is wrong, and
>      they should make a new commit to normalize all their
>      in-repo files to be precomposed.
>
>      This is probably not the right thing to do, because it
>      still doesn't fix checkouts of old history. And it
>      spreads the problem to people on byte-preserving
>      filesystems (like ext4), because now they have to start
>      precomposing their filenames as they are adde to git.

Hmm, have we taught the "compare precomposed" for codepaths that
compare two trees and a tree and the index, too?  Otherwise, we
would have the same issue with commits in the old history.

Do we have a similar issue for older commit in a history under
"ignore-case" as well?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-29 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28 16:16 [PATCH] t3910: show failure of core.precomposeunicode with decomposed filenames Jeff King
2014-04-28 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-28 19:35   ` Jeff King
2014-04-28 19:52     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-04-28 20:03       ` Jeff King
2014-04-28 20:49         ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-04-29  3:23           ` Jeff King
2014-04-29  7:39             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-04-29  3:15     ` Jeff King
2014-04-29 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-04-29 18:02   ` Jeff King
2014-04-29 18:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-29 19:46       ` Jeff King
2014-04-30 14:57     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-05-04 12:04       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-05-04  6:13 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-05-05 21:46   ` Jeff King
2014-05-06 10:11     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-07 19:16     ` Torsten Bögershausen

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