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From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] "best effort" checkout
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:09:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483F53D8.1020201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vabi8ocju.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I hope you did not use 6/5.  My understanding is that your platform
> natively supports it without that compatibility layer ;-)
>   
That is a very polite way to express things, and no I did not apply that 
patch.
>
> I expected to see "deleted" here.  I guess lstat("anything/nul") says "it
> exists" everywhere, and that probably is why you are getting EEXIST.
>
>   
Indeed:

git>ls nul
nul
git>ls nul*
ls: cannot access nul*: No such file or directory

So, any test for existence of <path>NUL will pass, but NUL never appears 
in a directory listing. The same is true of the other special filenames 
under Windows (aux, ...).

Mark

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30  1:10 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
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 [this message]

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