From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:29:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] embedded TAB and LF in pathnames
Message-ID: <20051007232909.GB8893@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0ftyvbc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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).