Non-Ascii files get renamed

[jakobkogler]

I have to work with a Git-Repository, that contains some files with non-ASCII-filenames. And this gives me problems with gitpython. I guess this behavior, that I'm gonna describe, is a bug.

Lets assume we have a Git-Repository. There is one file named Äbc.txt. The file is already staged and committed. And there is another file named test.txt which is not yet staged.

The command git status prints the following:

On branch master
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    test.txt

When I add the file test.txt to the index with

from git import Repo
repo = Repo()
repo.index.add(['test.txt'])

and afterwards call git status, I receive the following message:

On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

    new file:   test.txt
    renamed:    "\303\204bc.txt" -> "\303\204bc.tx"

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    deleted:    "\303\204bc.tx"

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    "\303\204bc.txt"

What's happened here? This doesn't appear if I call git add test.txt. Why does a file, that I didn't added to the index gets renamed?

[Byron]

This seems to be an encoding issue, and I wonder what your OS and locale are. On OSX, you can get the locale like so:

$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I could imagine something like that happens once there are characters which can't be represented by the ascii encoding. A capital A can easily be encoded using that methodi, and should end up being a single byte in utf-8, which is the default encoding.

Additionally, please be sure you use the latest version of GitPython, which is the master branch of this repository.

[jakobkogler]

I installed the version of the master branch and it fixes this problem. I guess you can close this issue. Sorry for wasting your time.

If you're interested. My system runs Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) with

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_AT.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[Byron]

Great to hear, and thanks for letting me know !