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

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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

I assume this is so you can test git's response to a defective filesystem 
without actually having a defective filesystem?

Exactly.  I should have mentioned it so that people did not have to waste
their brain cycles pointing out prn and other stuff.  Sorry.