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Re: [PATCH 1/1] mingw: only test index entries for backslashes, not tree entries

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 30, 2019, 21:57 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Turns out that this inconsistency is only in Git for Windows v2.24.1(2)
> but not in current `master` of Git, so I simply struck that part from the
> commit message.
> ...
> I rephrased it to:
>
>     So let's loosen the requirements: we now leave tree entries with
>     backslashes in their file names alone, but we do require any entries
>     that are added to the Git index to contain no backslashes on Windows.
> ...

We are in -rc so there is no real rush, but I take these to mean that I should just leave this loose end hanging untied, and wait for an updated version to replace it sometime early next year.

Thanks and happy new year.
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  1. 0/1 Disallow writing, but not fetching commits with file names containing backslashesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 26, 2019
  2. 1/1 mingw: only test index entries for backslashes, not tree entriesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 26, 2019
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  18. 0/1 Disallow writing, but not fetching commits with file names containing backslashesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 31, 2019
  19. 1/1 mingw: only test index entries for backslashes, not tree entriesJohannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget, Dec 31, 2019

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