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		sitzkrieg on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 Everywhere git will also do this, so on a fs that allowa arbitrarily byte named files, you end up with tree objects of same name which makes digging them out later "fun"

benibela on April 14, 2020 [–]

I have a repository full of such files: https://github.com/benibela/nasty-files

You can clone the repository, and then you cannot delete it with tools that expect utf-8 names (like KDE's Dolphin)

sitzkrieg on April 15, 2020 | [–]

haha pretty handy!

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