From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:18:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Explain how svn-fe parses filenames in SVN dumps
Message-ID: <20120414181823.GB4560@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4F89B5C5.3030606@pileofstuff.org>

Andrew Sayers wrote:

>                  For example, the handling of NUL characters is worse
> than newlines

Filenames are C strings.  Filenames with NUL bytes simply do not
exist, at least as long as one is using the ANSI C or POSIX interfaces
for file access.

So as far as I can tell the story really is only about newlines.  (If
svn-fe tried to push history back to Subversion, life would presumably
be more complicated.)

Hoping that clarifies a little,
Jonathan