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From: fork0@t-online.de (Alex Riesen)
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907101611.GA15981@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 06, 2006 21:29:49 +0200:
> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
> change.

May be make metacharacters the default behaviour, but provide a
command-line option to disable it? It'll be seldom used, but would
provide a way to disambiguate input for scripts and make possible
(even if a bit harder) to use such filenames.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-07 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-06 14:52 file rename causes history to disappear Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-09-06 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 15:46   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-06 16:14     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 16:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 19:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 21:45           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-09-07  0:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 10:16           ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2006-09-06 17:11       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 18:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 18:52           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-09-06 19:06             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-06 23:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-06 19:25             ` Jakub Narebski

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