From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:32:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names Message-ID: <40aa078e1002230532n6e692fd0p8fa5d599c21a1873@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B83D5CC.9030206@viscovery.net> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Johannes Schindelin schrieb: >> May I caution against allowing "+" as part of filenames? On Windows, >> thanks to the DOS garb^Wheritage, "+" is not really allowed... > > I don't think that's true (and I also think it never was). > Wikipedia doesn't seem to think so either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund