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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] embedded TAB and LF in pathnames
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:44:48 -0700
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, Fri, Oct 07, 2005 21:35:19 +0200:
>> I have not made up my mind on the exact choice of the quoting
>> convention.  We could say '///' instead of '//', for example, or
>> even '//{LF}//' instead of '//0A' proposed above.  One thing I
>> am trying to avoid is "foo\nbar", which I suspect would be
>> unfriendly to the Cygwin folks.
>
> Being unhappy one of them, I think I'd better manage (even if by
> postprocessing the output).
>
> Please, don't make the common case ugly just because of that platform
> (insanely broken anyway).

You really have to realize that having LF and TAB in filenames
are *NOT* the common case, no matter which platform you are
talking about.