From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alexandre Badez <alexandre.badez@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Misspelled directory
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:28:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519142827.GA20289@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQBTK_JchndNSd6ey746vY=N2TiHUc0Z1PJvp-vXYUZCkgc3Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:05:42PM +0200, Alexandre Badez wrote:
> The '.' directory is not the same as the root directory; you can see
> that the /README.md and /./README.md are different.
Right. Inside git trees, "." as an entry name does not have any special
meaning. However, because it does have meaning in filesystems, git
itself will never create such an entry, and "git fsck" will warn about
it.
> I've reported the bug to stackedit (
> https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/issues/405
> ) who ignore it (not their fault).
GitHub normally blocks objects that do not pass "fsck" from being
pushed, but there are some loopholes when going through the API, which
stackedit does. I'll bring this one to the attention of the GitHub API
developers.
However, the end result will probably be GitHub rejecting the API
request from stackedit to create the bogus tree. So stackedit may end up
wanting to adjust their code to handle the situation more gracefully
anyway.
-Peff
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2014-05-19 13:05 Misspelled directory Alexandre Badez
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