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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disallow '\' in ref names
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:55:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A03D776.6070309@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241760757-26068-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in
> Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results.
> 

NAK. We allow / on unixy systems, and that's the path separator there.
Junio even makes extensive use of it to create per-contributor
namespaces for topic-branches.

Are you guessing this might be a problem in the future, or have you
actually run into it?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08  5:32 [PATCH] Disallow '\' in ref names Robin Rosenberg
2009-05-08  6:55 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2009-05-08  7:17   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-08  7:46     ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-08  8:04       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-08  7:54 ` Michael J Gruber

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