Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2005, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <43737EC7.6090109@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>    - Add git-lost+found.  Currently the implementation stores
>      found refs under .git/lost+found/{commit,other}
>      directories, but writing out their object names to the
>      standard output and let the users decide what to do with
>      them was suggested on the list by Daniel, which makes sense
>      as well.  There are pros and cons so until we know if it is
>      useful and if so in what form, it will not come out of "pu"
>      branch.
>

May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different. "lost+found" is a name with special properties in Unix; for example, many backup solutions will ignore a directory with that name.

	-hpa