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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Nov 11, 2005, 21:18 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the original proposal (in TODO list) explicitly stated why
> I chose lost-found instead of lost+found back then, and somebody
> on the list (could have been Pasky but I may be mistaken) said
> not to worry.  In any case, if we go the route Daniel suggests,
> we would not be storing anything on the filesystem ourselves so
> this would be a non-issue.
> 

Just realized one more issue with this... a lot of non-Unix filesystems can't deal with files with a + sign.

	-hpa
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Message 23 of 29 in “[ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g”
  1. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  2. Jeff GarzikNov 10, 2005
  3. H. Peter AnvinNov 10, 2005
  4. Andreas EricssonNov 10, 2005
  5. H. Peter AnvinNov 11, 2005
  6. Andreas EricssonNov 12, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2005
  8. Andreas EricssonNov 12, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  10. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisNov 14, 2005
  13. Yaacov Akiba SlamaNov 10, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinNov 10, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  17. Petr BaudisNov 10, 2005
  18. Daniel BarkalowNov 10, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  20. Daniel BarkalowNov 10, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsNov 10, 2005
  22. Linus TorvaldsNov 10, 2005
  23. H. Peter AnvinNov 11, 2005
  24. Johannes SchindelinNov 11, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinNov 11, 2005
  26. Jim RadfordNov 10, 2005
  27. Andreas EricssonNov 10, 2005
  28. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2005
  29. Jim RadfordNov 11, 2005

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