From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:26:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()
Message-ID: <7v8wxtotkh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0805291145230.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> This is not meant for application to the mainline.  It allows your git to
>> refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".
>
> I assume this is so you can test git's response to a defective filesystem 
> without actually having a defective filesystem?

Exactly.  I should have mentioned it so that people did not have to waste
their brain cycles pointing out prn and other stuff.  Sorry.