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| -rw-r--r-- | read-cache.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c index 5c5dfc629d..333e0c5429 100644 --- a/read-cache.c +++ b/read-cache.c @@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ 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': |