Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: May 29, 2008, 06:33 UTC
Message-ID: <483E4E3C.90805@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <1212020246-26480-7-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

> This is not meant for application to the mainline.  It allows your git to
> refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".

It's not just about "nul"; these won't work either: "aux", "prn", "con", "com\d+", "lpt\d+", neither do "$one_of_these.$some_extension". And all of that regardless of the case!

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx

Definitely, we don't ever want to have such special-casing somewhere in git.

-- Hannes

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