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Re: file rename causes history to disappear

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Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date
Sep 7, 2006, 10:16 UTC
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Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 06, 2006 21:29:49 +0200:
> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
> change.

May be make metacharacters the default behaviour, but provide a command-line option to disable it? It'll be seldom used, but would provide a way to disambiguate input for scripts and make possible (even if a bit harder) to use such filenames.

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  2. Timo HirvonenSep 6, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 6, 2006
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  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 6, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 6, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2006
  8. Randal L. SchwartzSep 6, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2006
  10. Alex RiesenSep 7, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiSep 6, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 6, 2006
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  15. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2006
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