Re: [PATCH] Some documentation...

From: C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date: Apr 20, 2005, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504201321380.2630@cag.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42668C8D.3000209@dgreaves.com>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote:

> In doing this I noticed a couple of points:
> * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file

The comment in update-cache.c reads:
/*
  * We fundamentally don't like some paths: we don't want
  * dot or dot-dot anywhere, and in fact, we don't even want
  * any other dot-files (.git or anything else). They
  * are hidden, for chist sake.
  *
  * Also, we don't want double slashes or slashes at the
  * end that can make pathnames ambiguous.
  */

It could be argued that './' is a special case... but at the moment this 
is definitely a designed 'feature' not a 'bug'.
  --scott

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