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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:18:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43750A9D.7070400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4q6k1jp0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different. 
>>"lost+found" is a name with special properties in Unix; for example, 
>>many backup solutions will ignore a directory with that name.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the original proposal (in TODO list) explicitly stated why
> I chose lost-found instead of lost+found back then, and somebody
> on the list (could have been Pasky but I may be mistaken) said
> not to worry.  In any case, if we go the route Daniel suggests,
> we would not be storing anything on the filesystem ourselves so
> this would be a non-issue.
> 

Just realized one more issue with this... a lot of non-Unix filesystems 
can't deal with files with a + sign.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10  8:14 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10  9:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-10 17:13   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-10 18:34     ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-11 21:17       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-12 11:37         ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-11 18:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-12 12:17     ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14  7:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:23         ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 21:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-14  9:32         ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10  9:54 ` Yaacov Akiba Slama
2005-11-10 19:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-10 17:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 18:03     ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10 18:31       ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-10 19:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-10 19:09           ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-11-10 19:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-10 19:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11 21:18     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-11-11 14:19   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-11 17:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-10 18:54 ` Jim Radford
2005-11-10 20:30   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-10 20:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 18:23       ` Jim Radford

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