| Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | Files | Lines |
|---|
|
Document a known breakage with a test.
* jk/utf8-switch-between-nfd-and-nfc:
t3910: show failure of core.precomposeunicode with decomposed filenames
|
|
The Git CodingGuidelines prefer the $(...) construct for command
substitution instead of using the backquotes `...`.
The backquoted form is the traditional method for command
substitution, and is supported by POSIX. However, all but the
simplest uses become complicated quickly. In particular, embedded
command substitutions and/or the use of double quotes require
careful escaping with the backslash character.
The patch was generated by:
for _f in $(find . -name "*.sh")
do
sed -i 's@`\(.*\)`@$(\1)@g' ${_f}
done
and then carefully proof-read.
Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
|
|
If you have existing decomposed filenames in your git
repository (e.g., that were created with older versions of
git that did not precompose unicode), a modern git with
core.precomposeunicode set does not handle them well.
The problem is that we normalize the paths coming from the
disk into their precomposed form, and then compare them
against the literal bytes in the index. This makes things
better if you have the precomposed form in the index. It
makes things worse if you actually have the decomposed form
in the index.
As a result, paths with decomposed filenames may have their
precomposed variants listed as untracked files (even though
the precomposed variants do not exist on-disk at all).
This patch just adds a test to demonstrate the breakage.
Some possible fixes are:
1. Tell everyone that NFD in the git repo is wrong, and
they should make a new commit to normalize all their
in-repo files to be precomposed.
This is probably not the right thing to do, because it
still doesn't fix checkouts of old history. And it
spreads the problem to people on byte-preserving
filesystems (like ext4), because now they have to start
precomposing their filenames as they are adde to git.
2. Do all index filename comparisons using a UTF-8 aware
comparison function when core.precomposeunicode is set.
This would probably have bad performance, and somewhat
defeats the point of converting the filenames at the
readdir level in the first place.
3. Convert index filenames to their precomposed form when
we read the index from disk. This would be efficient,
but we would have to be careful not to write the
precomposed forms back out to disk.
4. Introduce some infrastructure to efficiently match up
the precomposed/decomposed forms. We already do
something similar for case-insensitive files using
name-hash.c. We might be able to adapt that strategy
here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
|
|
When core.precomposeunicode was introduced in 76759c7d,
it was set to false on a unicode decomposing file system like HFS+
to be compatible with older versions of Git.
The Mac OS users need to find out that this configuration exist
and change it manually from false to true.
A smoother workflow can be achieved,
so set core.precomposeunicode to true on a decomposing file system.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
|
|
Besides reusing the new test prerequisite, this fixes also the issue
that the current output is not TAP compliant and produces the output "no
reason given" [for skipping].
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
|
|
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+,
VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII
is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into
decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if
the file name is already decomposed unicode.
Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same
result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä".
As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed
unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on
HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in
precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in
decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network
share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to
disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X
readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its
behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT.
The unicode decomposition causes many problems:
- The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may
often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input
from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem
to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the
filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different.
- Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to
compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always
precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may
be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should
be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for
consistency in general).
- The same for names stored in the index, which should be
precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from
readdir().
NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from
the above.
As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal,
we can
- wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and
- normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the
precomposed form,
to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the
precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting
"core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true.
The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new
functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(),
precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three
are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions.
The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done
by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use
readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git.
When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone",
"core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false".
The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically
sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file
systems mounted via SAMBA.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
|
Junio C Hamano
Elia Pinto
Jeff King
Torsten Bögershausen
Michael J Gruber