From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:33:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483E4E3C.90805@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212020246-26480-7-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> This is not meant for application to the mainline. It allows your git to
> refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".
It's not just about "nul"; these won't work either: "aux", "prn", "con",
"com\d+", "lpt\d+", neither do "$one_of_these.$some_extension". And all of
that regardless of the case!
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx
Definitely, we don't ever want to have such special-casing somewhere in git.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 0:17 [PATCH 0/5] "best effort" checkout Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] "git checkout -- paths..." should error out when paths cannot be written Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] checkout: make reset_clean_to_new() not die by itself Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] checkout: consolidate reset_{to_new,clean_to_new|() Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] unpack_trees(): allow callers to differentiate worktree errors from merge errors Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] checkout: "best effort" checkout Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 0:17 ` [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file() Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 6:33 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-05-29 7:05 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2008-05-29 7:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-05-29 17:19 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-29 17:51 ` Brian Dessent
2008-05-29 18:35 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-29 12:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-29 15:55 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-05-29 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-29 17:44 ` Alex Riesen
2008-05-29 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/5] "best effort" checkout Mark Levedahl
2008-05-30 0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-30 1:09 ` Mark Levedahl
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