Re: [PATCH] translate bad characters in refnames during git-svn fetch

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20070716174731.GA4792@lapse.madduck.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070716111509.GC18293@efreet.light.src>

also sprach Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> [2007.07.16.0530 +0200]:

> The major issue with this is that it doesn't handle odd cases
> where a refname is sanitized into something (say "1234~2"
> sanitizes to "1234=2"), and then another branch is created named
> "1234=2".

Well, we can't please everyone, can we? :)

I like Jan's proposal about using the % escape, even though it doesn't make pretty branch names.

On the other hand, we could make the translation regexps configurable...

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