[PATCH 1 of 8 RFC] vfs: replace invocation of file APIs of os module by ones via vfs

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 22:25 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2012-06-18 21:26, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> >> On 2012-06-17 08:25, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 11:07 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> >>>> Have you guys put some thought into how to deal with repo root paths
> >>>> that contain "wide" characters already?
> >>>
> >>> No, and in fact I'd rather not think about that now. This topic is
> >>> already muddy/complex enough, so I've tried to carve off a solvable
> >>> piece to tackle.
> >>
> >> I think solving this one first might be better than ignoring it now and
> >> having to deal with it later.
> >>
> >> If we ignore that now, we are chosing solutions based on that "ignoring".
> > 
> > On the other hand, if people insist on expanding the problem scope to
> > include all the related problems, the resulting problem will be too
> > large to ever tackle.
> > 
> > Which is why I've very explicitly tried to focus on the "checking in and
> > out UTF-8 names" issue. It's functionally the most important Unicode
> > issue BY FAR, we have a plan, and we can move forward.
> > 
> 
> Ok. So let's see patches.

You realize you're replying to the first attempt at those patches,
right?

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