[IPython-dev] Filename with accents in the Git repository

Brian Granger ellisonbg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 12:31:26 EST 2014


I am seeing this as well. Min, how are you dealing with this?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Konrad Hinsen
<konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> wrote:
> Konrad Hinsen writes:
>
>  > Git seems to have problems with this filename, at least
>  > under MacOS X. It reports is as "untracked", but if I delete
>  > it, it becomes marked as "deleted". Even a fresh clone
>  > of the repository, right from GitHub, has this untracked file.
>  >
>  > Is there some Git configuration trick to fix this?
>
> I just ran into a Git expert on the corridor, so I can answer my own
> question.
>
> MacOS users need to set a special Git configuration option:
>
>   git config --global core.precomposeunicode true
>
> This takes effect for all repositories created or cloned in the
> future. There is no way to fix existing repositories, they must
> be cloned again.
>
> Konrad.
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