Add a Unicode mode, but keep the bytes mode

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Nov 4 09:20:16 CDT 2011


On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:47:14 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> 
> Each repository mode has limitations:
> 
>  * Unicode: you cannot checkout a repository on UNIX if your locale is unable 
> to encode all filenames. E.g. if your locale encoding is ASCII on Linux, you 
> cannot clone a repository containing non-ASCII filenames.

You can clone, you cannot checkout.
But you could also checkout if you accepted some (bijective) mangling of
un-decodable filenames.

Regards

Antoine.




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