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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:33:32 +0200
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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