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From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:28:28 +0400
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:06:05PM +0300, Esko Luontola wrote:
> A good start for making Git cross-platform, would be storing the text  
> encoding of every file name and commit message together with the commit. 
> Currently, because Git is oblivious to the encodings and just considers 
> them as a series of bytes, there is no way to make them cross-platform. 

1. Git already stores the endcoding for all commit messages that are not
   in UTF-8.

2. If you really want to be cross-platform portable, you should not use
   any characters in filenames outside of [A-Za-z0-9._-] (i.e. Portable
   Filename Character Set)
   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276


Dmitry