Johannes Sixt said the following on 29.05.2008 08:33:
Junio C Hamano schrieb: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.
They _can_ be used by using the UNC notation:
\\?\<drive letter>:\<path>\nul
Do you think we should special-case that, or simply fail?
( 9:04:57 - D:\home\marius\source\hg\test)
> hg checkout
abort: The parameter is incorrect: D:\home\marius\source\hg\test\nul
'Nuff said? :-)
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