Re: [BUG] Colon in remote urls

From: Klaus Ethgen <klaus@ethgen.ch>
Date: Dec 10, 2016, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20161210094133.7htkb6cmjuhkdh4v@ikki.ethgen.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20161210082657.zjp52a2zdtqifmg3@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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Am Sa den 10. Dez 2016 um  9:26 schrieb Jeff King:

> Yeah, I picked it arbitrarily as the common quoting character, but I
> agree it probably makes backwards compatibility (and general usability
> when you have to double-backslash each instance) pretty gross on
> Windows.

Well, I don't know of many people using the original git on windows. Most of them using some graphical third-party tools.

The main git suite is most often used on linux where a colon is a valid character For example using /mnt/c: as mount path for windows file systems or /bla/foo/dated_repository_2016-12-10_12:00.git for dated and timed repositories.

My btrfs snapshot dir looks like:
   ~snapshot> l -gGhN
   [...]
   drwxr-x--x 1 296 2016-07-30T13:55 daily_2016-12-10_00:00:01.270213478
   drwxr-x--x 1 296 2016-07-30T13:55 hourly_2016-12-10_05:00:01.372037552
   [...]

Compared to the backslash, although it is a perfect legal character in POSIX file systems, I do not know any use of it.

Regards
   Klaus
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