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Re: Re: Moving a directory into another fails

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Dec 5, 2006, 17:11 UTC
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > 	[core]
> > 		escapefilenames = true
> 
> I think this goes too far.

Sure., I agree that in _practice_ this isn't actually a problem, because people have long since learnt to avoid strange filenames in SCM's, simply because you can't get it right with insane filesystems.

That said, it might be a good idea to abstract out the create/read phase for filenames in the working tree regardless, since that also tends to be an area where other issues can come up (whoops - '/' vs '\' as the directory separator etc).

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  1. Jon SmirlJul 26, 2006
  2. Nicolas VilzJul 26, 2006
  3. Jon SmirlJul 26, 2006
  4. Nicolas VilzJul 26, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisJul 28, 2006
  6. Stefan PfetzingDec 4, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 4, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinDec 4, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsDec 4, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsDec 4, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceDec 4, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2006
  16. Johannes SchindelinDec 4, 2006
  17. Linus TorvaldsDec 4, 2006
  18. Johannes SchindelinDec 5, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiDec 5, 2006
  20. filesystem encodings and gitweb tests, was Re: Moving a directory into another failsJohannes Schindelin, Dec 5, 2006
  21. Jakub NarebskiDec 5, 2006
  22. Johannes SchindelinDec 5, 2006
  23. Linus TorvaldsDec 5, 2006
  24. Johannes SchindelinDec 4, 2006

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