I\'m interested in trying out distributed version control systems. git sounds promising, but I saw a note somewhere for the Windows port of git that says \"don\'t use non-AS
August 2009:
The msysgit project is busy fixing UTF-8 support for Git on Windows. It might be fixed in the next release.
Update February 2012
UTF-8 is coming for msysgit, with commits like this one "Update less settings for UTF-8 "
From the Git for Windows Google+ page:
Karsten Blees' UTF-8 patches for Git for Windows has now been merged to '
devel'.
This means the upcoming release will support Unicode filenames!
Update April 2012
It's now released in mSysGit 1.7.10.
See the page Git for Windows Unicode Support.