From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:39:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805291338370.13507@racer.site.net>
In-Reply-To: <483E4E3C.90805@viscovery.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> > This is not meant for application to the mainline.  It allows your git 
> > to refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".
> 
> It's not just about "nul"; these won't work either: "aux", "prn", "con", 
> "com\d+", "lpt\d+", neither do "$one_of_these.$some_extension". And all 
> of that regardless of the case!
> 
> See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx
> 
> Definitely, we don't ever want to have such special-casing somewhere in 
> git.

I think that the standard methods, namely checking by hook, should be good 
enough.

Ciao,
Dscho