On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> wrote:
>> Does this have any effects on non-utf8 users? I'm on utf-8, so this is
>> not really my concern, that is unless it changes something on LANG=C..
>>
> Not sure if I fully understand the question.
>
> Mac OS will always use UTF-8, and we can choose between
> precomposesd and decomposed.
>
> Windows ("Git for Windows" == msysgit) uses UTF-8 (precomposed)
> Git under cygwin 1.7 uses UTF-8, precomposed.
> Git under cygwin 1.5 or git compiled under mingw does not use
> UTF-8, but a Windows code page"
>
> Linux may use UTF-8 or ISO-8859 or whatever you configure.
>
> This change affects only Mac OS,
> (should this be stated better in the commit MSG?)Ah yes, I see precompose_unicode changes default value from -1 to 1, but I did not see that the whole precompose unicode code is only active in Mac OS. > > And if somebody wants to change a repo between Linux, Windows > and/or Mac OS, everybody should use UTF-8 (precomposed) for filenames, > directories and branches. > (or stick to ASCII) > Does this answer the question? It does, thanks. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
