From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:09:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Message-ID: <20120720170913.GA14057@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <5009892E.9010808@kdbg.org>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:37:02PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 20.07.2012 17:44, schrieb Jeff King:
> > So I think a suffix like ":d" is probably the least horrible.
> 
> Not so. It does not work on Windows :-( in the expected way. Trying to
> open a file with a colon-separated suffix either opens a resource fork
> on NTFS or fails with "invalid path".

Bleh. It seems that we did too good a job in coming up with a list of
disallowed ref characters; they really are things you don't want in your
filenames at all. :)

-Peff