On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0700, Geoff Hoffman wrote: > I have a file with some (I believe) Portuguese characters in the filename > that someone managed to store in the repo without any problem, and I checked > it out without issues, too. However, now on my working copy, it thinks that > file is locally new.
> MacbookPro:ClearSale geoffh$ ls -la ^^^ It's a Mac, so please see this issue: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2464 and make sure to read the notes in this file: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/unicode-composition-for-filenames Short summary: Do not use anything but ASCII in your filenames if you need things to work between Macs and other systems. The problem is that the Mac changes the filename in a subtle way.