From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:37:58 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2016, #06; Mon, 28)
Message-ID: <20161129183758.wicmteo5vdvygu2q@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfumagmso.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:31:51AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm actually considering scrapping the approach you've queued above, and
> > just teaching verify_path() to reject any index entry starting with
> > ".git" that is a symlink.
> 
> Hmph, that's a thought.

I was resistant to it at first because we'll have to deal with all of
the headaches of matching case-folding, but if we just match ".git*" and
not ".gitmodules", ".gitattributes", etc, it actually gets easier. I
think we can basically build off of the existing is_hfs_dotgit() and
is_ntfs_dotgit() functions.

I haven't written the code yet, though, so there may be complications.

-Peff