Re: [PATCH 0/2] handling alternates paths with colons

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > So here are patches that do that. It kicks in only when the first
> > character of a path is a double-quote, and then expects the usual
> > C-style quoting.
> 
> The quote being per delimited component is what makes this fifth
> approach a huge win.  
> 
> All sane components on a list-valued environment are still honored
> and an insane component that has either a colon in the middle or
> begins with a double-quote gets quoted.  As long as nobody used a
> path that begins with a double-quote as an element in such a
> list-valued environment (and they cannot be, as using a non-absolute
> path as an element does not make much sense), this will be safe, and
> a path with a colon didn't work with Git unaware of the new quoting
> rule anyway.  Nice.