| From 62c36347cce0ea3a3bbbfc782e3363c24e7c0502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> |
| Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 09:56:50 -0400 |
| Subject: verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment |
| |
| commit 641084b618ddbe099f0992161988c3e479ae848b upstream. |
| |
| We're more restrictive than we need to be in matching ".GIT" |
| on case-sensitive filesystems; let's make a note that this |
| is intentional. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> |
| Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> |
| --- |
| read-cache.c | 5 ++++- |
| 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) |
| |
| diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c |
| index 81479c4abd..c7285167d0 100644 |
| --- a/read-cache.c |
| +++ b/read-cache.c |
| @@ -818,7 +818,10 @@ static int verify_dotfile(const char *rest) |
| |
| switch (*rest) { |
| /* |
| - * ".git" followed by NUL or slash is bad. |
| + * ".git" followed by NUL or slash is bad. Note that we match |
| + * case-insensitively here, even if ignore_case is not set. |
| + * This outlaws ".GIT" everywhere out of an abundance of caution, |
| + * since there's really no good reason to allow it. |
| */ |
| case 'g': |
| case 'G': |
| -- |
| 2.17.0.921.gf22659ad46 |
| |
