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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Explain how svn-fe parses filenames in SVN dumps
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:18:23 -0500
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Andrew Sayers wrote:

>                  For example, the handling of NUL characters is worse
> than newlines

Filenames are C strings.  Filenames with NUL bytes simply do not
exist, at least as long as one is using the ANSI C or POSIX interfaces
for file access.

So as far as I can tell the story really is only about newlines.  (If
svn-fe tried to push history back to Subversion, life would presumably
be more complicated.)

Hoping that clarifies a little,
Jonathan