Re: Commit cce8d6fdb introduces file t/t5100/nul, git tree is now incompatible with Cygwin (and probably Windows)

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Please learn to think before typing, let alone sending such a message to
waste other people's time.

Why so harsh?

What alternatives do you want to implement?  Certainly not silently
creating "nul-garbage" file instead and pretend that nothing bad happened,
as that would lead to madness.

Or instead we could have a '-f' switch or such with checkout that
allows you to checkout a revision that contains a bad file, but with
that file missing. Of course this needn't happen silently, a big
warning saying "could not checkout file %s because of %s" may still be
issued.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier