Re: [PATCH v3 8/8] maintenance: use 'git config --fixed-value'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2020, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq360xc9ur.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <558775f83d7cbf7ad0e2090ab13be404cdf16b24.1606342377.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> When a repository's leading directories contain regex metacharacters,
> the config calls for 'git maintenance register' and 'git maintenance
> unregister' are not careful enough. Use the new --fixed-value option
> to direct the config machinery to use exact string matches. This is a
> more robust option than escaping these arguments in a piecemeal fashion.
>
> For the test, require that we are not running on Windows since the '+'
> and '*' characters are not allowed on that filesystem.

Thanks.

I was hoping there would be some byte we could use, but it seems "a[]b" would not work if we go back beyond VFAT or NTFS. !MINGW it is, then.