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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@...>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>, Mike Hommey <mh@...>, <git@...>
Subject: Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 1:32 pm

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Kevin Ballard wrote:

As pointed out (multiple times), this is only true if the programmer is a 
moron.

You do not need to - and *should* not - convert to a common normalization 
in order to compare to Uncode strings. You should just compare them with a 
Unicode-aware comparison routine. It will be faster, and it will avoid 
corrupting the input.

Sadly, stupid people are much too common.

		Linus
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Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Theodore Tso, (Tue Jan 22, 8:08 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 22, 8:38 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Theodore Tso, (Tue Jan 22, 9:33 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Mike Hommey, (Wed Jan 23, 2:41 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Wed Jan 23, 4:15 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Mike Hommey, (Wed Jan 23, 5:40 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Wed Jan 23, 12:58 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Dmitry Potapov, (Wed Jan 23, 1:39 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Wed Jan 23, 1:47 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Theodore Tso, (Wed Jan 23, 9:38 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jan 23, 12:16 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Wed Jan 23, 1:19 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Wed Jan 23, 7:37 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Jay Soffian, (Wed Jan 23, 4:18 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jan 23, 1:32 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Theodore Tso, (Wed Jan 23, 1:12 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Dmitry Potapov, (Wed Jan 23, 4:43 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Jonathan del Strother, (Wed Jan 23, 5:02 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Dmitry Potapov, (Wed Jan 23, 5:12 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Mike Hommey, (Wed Jan 23, 5:19 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Dmitry Potapov, (Wed Jan 23, 5:32 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 22, 9:56 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Tue Jan 22, 10:02 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Tue Jan 22, 9:16 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:27 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:14 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Kevin Ballard, (Tue Jan 22, 8:38 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, David Kastrup, (Wed Jan 23, 4:45 am)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Theodore Tso, (Tue Jan 22, 10:06 pm)
Re: git on MacOSX and files with decomposed utf-8 file names, Martin Langhoff, (Tue Jan 22, 9:47 pm)