From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 20:40:20 +0200 Message-ID: <46a038f90905121140n61902c61qc3cd41100efee4ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <419AD153-53B4-4DAB-AF72-4127C17B1CA0@gmail.com> <20090512182828.GA26812@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Esko Luontola , git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Potapov X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 12 20:41:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M3wty-0008Qd-NU for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 20:40:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752342AbZELSkV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 14:40:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbZELSkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 14:40:21 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:48140 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751955AbZELSkU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 14:40:20 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so157527fxm.37 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 11:40:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wGchzTGJKSrPrJD97x7ftiY7/s/H3Ba8iG8ciPqmu7k=; b=ftnZX1Zp22Ni9nn43h9qG2jTxJFwLBX0OqXZH03hBYBUE5ZyfCxMXZgOMt98Y1mU+f nev63tyc44qGoUrazEwgea3rgbjh/2gMcYUBiOXnFLrUl3lDlRwePg3bw0K2UXsVddIl qGMHapcTUUZ8sq5o5wNbc0g5omp1688RhsDBk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E52pMjjyb3pZfoFn/l8n5TGahssvjQ1ZvQIg3SUhkJGgD33RJWDfrgfVI+x+pATwcv h/3okrR1HHyRPuCR8HMPIY8SYnEfZwVul00FxdllYbDMuDQ03pzbulMoUhTi5Eq0CKSY FDJ+bHbfgGwk1aGRSoYSV+Z1RVK2idU4rxaZU= Received: by 10.223.104.74 with SMTP id n10mr16113fao.5.1242153620356; Tue, 12 May 2009 11:40:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090512182828.GA26812@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Dmitry Potapov wr= ote: > 2. If you really want to be cross-platform portable, you should not u= se > =A0 any characters in filenames outside of [A-Za-z0-9._-] (i.e. Porta= ble > =A0 Filename Character Set) > =A0 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03= =2Ehtml#tag_03_276 Would it make sense to have warnings at 'git add' time about - filenames outside of that charset (as the strictest mode, perhaps even default) - filenames that have a potential conflict wrt case-sensitivity - filenames that have potential conflict in the same tree due to utf-8 encoding vagaries MHO is that a strict "start your project portable from day one" mode is best as a default. But I'd be happy with any default, actually ;-) m --=20 martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff