From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:21:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling renames.
Message-ID: <425EB4AE.4010700@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <1113501260.27227.26.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Opinions? Dissent? We'd probably need to escape the filenames in some
> way -- handwave over that for now.
> 

For readability and simplicity I'd suggest using either URL-style %XX 
escapes or octal \xxx escapes for anything bytes < 33, minus the escape 
character.

Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this, 
it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me.  We might as well 
design it right from the beginning.

	-hpa