Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()

Hi,

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Junio C Hamano schrieb:

quoted

This is not meant for application to the mainline.  It allows your git 
to refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".

It's not just about "nul"; these won't work either: "aux", "prn", "con", 
"com\d+", "lpt\d+", neither do "$one_of_these.$some_extension". And all 
of that regardless of the case!

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx

Definitely, we don't ever want to have such special-casing somewhere in 
git.

I think that the standard methods, namely checking by hook, should be good 
enough.

Ciao,
Dscho