Re: git-fast-import doc problem and git-fast-export does not quote filenames correctly

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 01:17, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> The first problem is that the doc seems to allow NUL bytes (which I
>> suspect are not really allowed)
> 
> Fast import keeps reading until it finds a '\n' and stores data in a
> strbuf, so I don't see why 'NUL' would not be allowed.

I guess I just found it hard to believe that git, with all of its
scripts, would really be able to handle NUL characters in filenames.
Moreover, even if git allows it, I think NUL is prohibited in posix
filenames, so it would be pretty pointless.

In the end, I asked this question to help figure out what filenames
"cvs2git" should allow through to git.  A NUL character could only get
into a CVS filename if the user writes some strange code to transform
the filename, so I guess I don't mind letting it through to git if there
is some chance that git can handle it.

> [...] Backslashes are allowed, and it seems they need to be escaped as
> usual. Perhaps Shawn can confirm that this should just be updated in
> the docs.

Thanks for the info!  Assuming that Shawn doesn't contradict you, I will
let any characters through and quote characters as you suggest.

Michael