Re: [BUG] Colon in remote urls

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 10, 2016, 10:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20161210102657.ateotzowgek7bjuc@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20161210094133.7htkb6cmjuhkdh4v@ikki.ethgen.ch>

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:41:33AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

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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.

I laid out options for addressing the problem elsewhere, but I want to make clear that this line of reasoning is not likely to get any traction here. Git for Windows is a non-trivial part of the user base, and we do care about avoiding regressions there.

-Peff