Re: [PATCH] t/Makefile: make sure that file names are truly platform-independent

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 05:37:35PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Hrm. I am not sure I agree. At GitHub, for instance, we turn on
core.protectNTFS for all repositories because we do want to be a vector
for attacks.

I trust you meant "do *not* want to be a vector for attacks"...

Heh, yes.

Good point.

What I meant in my curt language was actually not to use core.protectNTFS
per se, but the same code path. That is, I would rather have any such
"cross-platform helping" code in verify_path() rather than
write_index_as_tree().

But you are correct, this hypothetical feature (pretty hypothetical,
indeed, at this point) would have to be configured differently than
via core.protectNTFS=true.

Ah, OK. Yeah, I don't have any real objection to that. I'm not sure how
easy it would be to check verify_path() for an existing commit (say, as
part of a pre-commit hook, or a pre-receive, or in a CI test). But if it
is not easy, that seems like a problem that can (and should) be fixed
separately.

-Peff