"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > When a repository's leading directories contain regex metacharacters, > the config calls for 'git maintenance register' and 'git maintenance > unregister' are not careful enough. Use the new --fixed-value option > to direct the config machinery to use exact string matches. This is a > more robust option than escaping these arguments in a piecemeal fashion. > > For the test, require that we are not running on Windows since the '+' > and '*' characters are not allowed on that filesystem. Thanks. I was hoping there would be some byte we could use, but it seems "a[]b" would not work if we go back beyond VFAT or NTFS. !MINGW it is, then.
