From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 14:34:04 GMT Subject: Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BDFBB18.70800@op5.se> 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