Re: [StGIT BUG] StGIT errors out on rebasing patch deleting file with Unicode filename

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

2008/6/2 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 1 June 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> StGIT errors out on rebasing patch which deletes file with Unicode
>> characters in filename (with characters outside US-ASCII in filename).
>> The patch in question is patch deleting gitweb/test/* in git directory,
>> and is present already on the 'origin' branch (the branch we rebase
>> onto), so stg-rebase should result in an empty patch (as first patch).
>>
>>  "gitweb/test/M\303\244rchen" |    2 --
>>  gitweb/test/file with spaces |    4 ----
>>  gitweb/test/file+plus+sign   |    6 ------
>>  3 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 gitweb/test/Märchen
>>  delete mode 100644 gitweb/test/file with spaces
>>  delete mode 100644 gitweb/test/file+plus+sign
>>
>> I guess the error is caused by using unescaped (quoted) filename.
>
> You can WORKAROUND this bug by setting core.quotepath to false.  This
> allowed me to make stg-rebase.

I can add a workaround in StGIT to actually ignore the exception
raised by os.remove() but I don't know how to convert the quoted file
name back to its unicode value in Python.

-- 
Catalin