From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: quote paths in output
Message-ID: <20110806023604.GA7013@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4o1v31uw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:55:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > +	 git read-tree --empty &&
> 
> Hmmmm, this adds more work to the backporting of this fix.

We can easily replace it with "rm -f .git/index". Or we can be fancy and
actually tell update-index to drop the entries individually, but they
are somewhat of a pain to manipulate, given that they have magic
characters.

-Peff