Re: [BUG] Colon in remote urls

From: Klaus Ethgen <klaus@ethgen.ch>
Date: Dec 10, 2016, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20161210093230.26q7fxcrs2cpll6g@ikki.ethgen.ch>
In-Reply-To: <88bed7c9-4d5d-45d5-5d13-6a8ae834e602@kdbg.org>

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Am Fr den  9. Dez 2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johannes Sixt:

> There are too many systems out there that use a backslash in path names. I
> don't think it is wise to use it also as the quoting character.

Well, the minority, I believe. And only the minority where the command line git is used anywhere.

But for the majority of OS, where the command line git is in use (instead of graphically third party git tools) is perfect known for backslash as escaping character. However, don't forget that a backslash could also be part of the file name.

Regads
   Klaus
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