Re: t9200-git-cvsexportcommit #8 failure on OS X

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: 2007-01-31 09:20:00
tisdag 30 januari 2007 17:32 skrev Brian Gernhardt:
[...]
> mkdir: ?: Invalid argument
>
> It looks like one of the odd characters that git's using for the test is
> an invalid character for HFS+, so the entire test fails.  Perhaps this
> should be made a "soft" failure like all of the SVN tests passing
> despite me not having SVN installed, or should a different character be
> used somewhere?  Git can't possibly be expected to work in a situation
> where the FS fails.

My fault. The problem is that the data is ISO-8859-1, which is invalid
when interpreted as UTF-8.  Another user reported the same problem in cygwin 
on a Korean Windows. The byte sequences are illegal there too.

A number of solution could be concieved, like converting to the local encoding 
first, but that cannot be done beacuase I couldn't find any non-ascii 
characters that would be convertible into any (major) locale. 

Another is to ignore the test if these files cannot be created.

-- robin
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