From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:28:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: technical details about the index file format Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201009012054.20482.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> 2010/9/2 Robin Rosenberg : >> +  Entry path name (variable length) relative to top-level directory > ...to the top level... >> +    (without leading slash). '/' is used as path separator. Special > The special... >> +    paths ".", ".." and ".git" (without quotes) are disallowed. >> +    Trailing slash is also disallowed. > Why would anyone even consider adding a trailing slash to a _file_ name? Well, I was tempted to put directories in index more than once. And subprojects are actually directories although they are treated as files in index. -- Duy