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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_309__filenames.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_309__filenames.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..30c9b516c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/assistant/blog/day_309__filenames.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Today was a nice reminder that there are no end of bugs lurking in filename +handling code. + +First, fixed a bug that prevented git-annex from adding +filenames starting with ":", because that is a special character to git. + +Second, discovered that git 1.8.4 rc0 has changed `git-cat-file --batch` in +a way that makes it impossible to operate on filenames containing spaces. +This is, IMHO, a reversion, so hopefully my +[bug report](http://bugs.debian.org/718517) will get it fixed. + +Put in a workaround for that, although using the broken version of git +with a direct mode repository with lots of spaces in file or directory +names is going to really slow down git-annex, since it often has to fork a +new git cat-file process for each file. + +Release day tomorrow.. |