Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:26:22 -0700

Daniel Barkalow <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> This is not meant for application to the mainline.  It allows your git to
>> refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".
>
> I assume this is so you can test git's response to a defective filesystem 
> without actually having a defective filesystem?

Exactly.  I should have mentioned it so that people did not have to waste
their brain cycles pointing out prn and other stuff.  Sorry.