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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>
>>May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different.
>>"lost+found" is a name with special properties in Unix; for example,
>>many backup solutions will ignore a directory with that name.
>
>
> Yeah, the original proposal (in TODO list) explicitly stated why
> I chose lost-found instead of lost+found back then, and somebody
> on the list (could have been Pasky but I may be mistaken) said
> not to worry. In any case, if we go the route Daniel suggests,
> we would not be storing anything on the filesystem ourselves so
> this would be a non-issue.
>

Just realized one more issue with this... a lot of non-Unix filesystems
can't deal with files with a + sign.

-hpa
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