Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g
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- H. 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