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Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
May 4, 2010, 14:34 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.2.00.1005040732310.5478@i5.linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, 4 May 2010, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> So why not make even pack file access work with the git macros?
Because I'm a sneaky bastard, and I have a long-term plan.
The whole filename character set conversion thing.

So having a git_[l]stat() macro - used only for working tree accesses - would be one step in that direction. Doing it for git internal files would totally screw that plan up.

		Linus
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