From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:56:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH Cogito] cg-init breaks if . contains sub-dir
Message-ID: <20050510085626.GC8176@lug-owl.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050510083609.GF11221@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

On Tue, 2005-05-10 10:36:09 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw:
> > > 	find * \( -type f -o tyle l \) -print0 | ...
> > 
> > Btw, this won't find dot files, so using "." as the path list (instead
> > of "*") might be wise...
> > 
> git doesn't want to handle dot files anyway.

...which I actually consider to be a bug. Why should git care about the
filename, as long as it doesn't clash with ".git"?  After all, it's just
a plumbing mechanism designed to locate file contents by SHA-1 hashes.
It shouldn't deal with file names at all, really:-)

MfG, JBG

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