Merge branch 'tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname'

Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.

I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.

* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
  git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c6ff15e594..7bc0e53848 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -211,6 +211,15 @@ The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
 will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository
 is created.
 
+core.precomposeunicode::
+	This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of git.
+	When core.precomposeunicode=true, git reverts the unicode decomposition
+	of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository
+	between Mac OS and Linux or Windows.
+	(Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or git under cygwin 1.7).
+	When false, file names are handled fully transparent by git,
+	which is backward compatible with older versions of git.
+
 core.trustctime::
 	If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
 	working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time