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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] core.precomposeunicode is true by default
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:49:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvc2rfau9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521CAD88.4080609@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:45:44 +0200")

Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web•de> writes:

>>... see if that path can be seen under its alias.  Why do we set it
>>to "false"?  Isn't this the true culprit?
>>
>>After all, this is not in the "reinit" codepath, so we know we are
>>dealing with a repository that was created afresh.
>
> There is nothing wrong with the auto-sensing as such.
> The problem for many users today is that we set core.precomposeunicode
> to false, when it should be true.

I think we are in agreement then.

The code detects a broken filesystem just fine, but what it does
when it finds the filesystem is broken is wrong---it sets the
variable to false.  That makes the whole auto-sensing wrong, and I
think it makes sense to correct that behaviour.

> Let's look what precomposed_unicode does and go through a couple
> of git operations.
>
> 1)
> When we create a repo under Mac OS using HFS+,
> we want to have precomposed_unicode = 1

Yes.

> 2)
> When we access a repo from Windows/Linux using SAMBA,

You mean s/repo/repository that resides on HFS+/?

> readdir() will return decomposed.
> When the repo is created by nonMacOS, core.precomposeunicode is undefined.
> The precomposition is off, but should be on, 
> precomposed_unicode = -1, but should be = 1

I do not think UTF-8-MAC is widely available; even if you flip the
bit on, would it help much?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-27 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-27  1:21 [PATCH/RFC] core.precomposeunicode is true by default Torsten Bögershausen
2013-07-27 15:23 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-27 22:53   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-07-28  4:45     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-07-29 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-27 13:45   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-08-27 14:49     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-27 15:06       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-08-27 16:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-27 19:34           ` Torsten Bögershausen

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