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>
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