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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next prev parent 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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