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From: Jun T <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] 'ls-files path' fails if absolute path of workdir contains NFD (macOS)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:27:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D75808-70E0-46FA-906D-C00CD612A262@kba.biglobe.ne.jp> (raw)

On macOS, 'git ls-files path' does not work (gives an error)
if the absolute 'path' contains characters in NFD (decomposed).
I guess this is a (minor) bug of git.

[1] How to reproduce the problem

On macOS, git 2.39.3 or 2.45.0.219.gb9fe23f5ca(next branch),
file system can be APFS or HFS.

with zsh or bash:
% cd /somewhere         # some safe place, /tmp or ~/tmp etc.
% mkdir $'u\xcc\x88'    # ü in NFD
% cd ü                  # or cd $'u\xcc\x88' or cd $'\xc3\xbc'
% git init
% git ls-files $'/somewhere/u\xcc\x88'   # NFD
fatal: /somewhere/ü: '/somewhere/ü' is outside repository at '/somewhere/ü'
% git ls-files $'/somewhere/\xc3\xbc'    # NFC
(the same error as above)

In the 'fatal:' error message, there are three ü;
the 1st and 2nd are in NFC, the 3rd is in NFD.

[2] Some analysis

The path on the command line $'/somewhere/u\xcc\x88'
is converted to NFC by precompose_argv_prefix(),
called at git.c:451 in run_builtin().

But get_git_work_tree() (called at setup.c:50, in
abspath_part_inside_repo()) returns the work_tree in NFD,
and comparing it with the path in NFC (setup.c:92) fails.

I'm not familiar with git internals, but maybe
get_git_work_tree() should return NFC (on macoS)?

--
Jun (Jun-ichi Takimoto)

             reply	other threads:[~2024-04-30  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-30  3:27 Jun T [this message]
2024-04-30  7:12 ` [BUG] 'ls-files path' fails if absolute path of workdir contains NFD (macOS) Torsten Bögershausen
2024-04-30 15:52   ` Jun. T
2024-04-30 16:58     ` Torsten Bögershausen

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