From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:34:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsck: warn about '.' and '..' in trees
Message-ID: <20121128043433.GB5362@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121128043215.GA5362@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:32:16PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

>   $ check dot .
>   error: Invalid path '.'
> 
>   $ check dotdot ..
>   error: Updating '..' would lose untracked files in it
> 
>   $ check dotgit .git
>   error: Updating '.git' would lose untracked files in it
> 
> Interesting that we detect the first one while reading into the cache,
> but apparently try much harder to checkout on the latter two. Not sure I
> want to try "git checkout -f". :)

Actually, I take it back. The "untracked files" check comes _first_, and
if you do "-f", we end up in the verify_path check when trying to pull
the tree into the index. So I think the way git handles it makes sense.

-Peff