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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:39:21 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> 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.

I think that the standard methods, namely checking by hook, should be good 
enough.

Ciao,
Dscho