From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:24:41 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2011, #01; Tue, 4)
Message-ID: <7vlisy119i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E8DC01A.8060406@obry.net>

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

>> Incomplete with respect to backslash processing in prefix_filename(), and
>> also loses the ability to escape glob specials.
>> Will discard.
>
> Sorry but this is letting best be enemy of good!

The impression I got from the discussion was quite different, which was
that the patch was not even "good" by making certain things impossible to
do by catering to a narrow corner case.