Re: [boost] [test] Problems with UTF-8 paths in GIT.

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Problems with UTF-8 paths in GIT.
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-05 12:45:34

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> > This commit <
> >
> >
> https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/commit/785d521b54140763dd23ef091a18d7196006c787
> > >
> > is causing me some problems with some git clients. In particular the git
> > client in Eclipse errors out with some unsupported / invalid messages. I
> > know why those dir names are the way they are.. But we still are supposed
> > to follow the naming rules we agreed to <
> > http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Directory_structure>.
> >
> >
> How about if I move those directories and files to a different branch? I
> really don't want to lose them since we do get bug reports involving Asian
> characters and it is handy to have test cases available.
>

That might fix it. Don't really know which part of the git process it
failed on. So not sure.

Another option is to put that structure in a ZIP or TAR and add the archive
to GIT.

And yet another is to dynamically create that structure (assuming you can
of course) with a script or program.

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