Hi, 2012/2/9 Thomas Åkesson <tho...@akesson.cc>: > Hi, > I have been interested in this issue for a couple of years and I remember it > was discussed briefly at Subconf in Germany a couple of years ago. > > Branching the thread here because I'd like to propose a different approach > than Hiroaki. This proposition is not very different from the note > "unicode-composition-for-filenames" or what Peter S, Neels and others > suggested, perhaps just combining 2 changes slightly differently. > > This is based on my limited understanding of WC-NG, please correct me if I > make incorrect assumptions. > > - Server will still accept both NFC and NFD, however, it will no longer > accept collisions. Enforced by normalising to NFD before uniqueness checks > during add operations (yes, might be more expensive). There will be no > unified normalisation, but the subversion server will work like most > filesystems; return what was given to it.
For compatibility, we cannot ignore existing repositories and working copies which have filename collisions. So we cannot enforce subversion servers and clients to normalize filenames. We must let users to choose whether filenames are normalized or not per repository. -- )Hiroaki Nakamura) hnaka...@gmail.com
