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* [PATCH 0/2] Refuse to write to reserved filenames on Windows
@ 2019-12-21 22:04 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
  2019-12-21 22:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] mingw: short-circuit the conversion of `/dev/null` to UTF-16 Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
  2019-12-21 22:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] mingw: refuse paths containing reserved names Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
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From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget @ 2019-12-21 22:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Johannes Schindelin, Junio C Hamano

On Windows, for historical reasons, file names such as aux.c, nul.txt are
not allowed. For aux.c, attempts to write such a file will result in an
obscure error, for nul.txt the call will succeed but no such file will
appear, ever, instead the effect will be equivalent to writing to /dev/null 
on Linux/Unix.

Let's help users by refusing to create such files altogether, with an
informative error message.

Johannes Schindelin (2):
  mingw: short-circuit the conversion of `/dev/null` to UTF-16
  mingw: refuse paths containing reserved names

 compat/mingw.c        | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 compat/mingw.h        |  11 +++-
 t/t0060-path-utils.sh |  13 ++++-
 3 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)


base-commit: 53a06cf39b756eddfe4a2a34da93e3d04eb7b728
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-496%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-reserved-filenames-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-496/dscho/mingw-reserved-filenames-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/496
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