Microsoft had a good idea

Posted Dec 10, 2024 11:22 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: Microsoft had a good idea by Wol
Parent article: Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package

That must have been particularly bad on Windows since Windows programs implement globbing themselves instead of letting a shell do it.

Microsoft had a good idea

Posted Dec 10, 2024 12:40 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Made even worse because on Pr1mos dot-extensions were a (new) convention at the time, while on Windows they are (almost) mandatory.

So with most of the * files being extensionless, the globbing really went mad (I think it actually went recursive!), and until we realised and put a bug in against the backup software, it caused us quite a bit of grief. Telling "our" software not to use *'s was not an option ...

Cheers,
Wol