From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:36:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [BULLS**T PATCH] Allow Git to work at Insane Bank Corp
Message-ID: <7vlk9089jo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071115015227.GA2116@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Because Insane Bank Corp is one of the largest banks in the world
> all 3rd party software vendors must comply and correct their
> applications to not fail when they encounter Desktop.ini in an
> application's internal data directory.  Or they will lose their
> contract with Insane Bank Corp.
>
> This patch must be applied to Git, since Git is a 3rd party software
> product and its global assets are much smaller than those of Insane
> Bank Corp.  If not applied Git won't be permitted for use.  Git could
> lose all of its software licenses and support contracts.  Git shall
> do as Insane Bank Corp requests.

.gitignore?	... ducks ... then comes back.

> +#ifdef WORK_FOR_INSANE_BANK_CORP
> +static inline struct dirent *gitreaddir(DIR *dirp)
> +{
> +	struct dirent *r;
> +	while ((r = readdir(dirp))) {
> +		if (!strcasecmp(r->d_name, "Desktop.ini"))
> +			continue;
> +	}
> +	return r;
> +}
> +#define readdir gitreaddir
> +#endif

Something like this could be used as an emulation layer for
case-corrupting filesystems ;-)