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Re: [PATCH] Disallow '\' in ref names

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
May 8, 2009, 06:55 UTC
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<1241760757-26068-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in
> Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results.
>

NAK. We allow / on unixy systems, and that's the path separator there. Junio even makes extensive use of it to create per-contributor namespaces for topic-branches.

Are you guessing this might be a problem in the future, or have you actually run into it?

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  1. Disallow '\' in ref namesRobin Rosenberg, May 8, 2009
  2. Andreas EricssonMay 8, 2009
  3. Johannes SixtMay 8, 2009
  4. Andreas EricssonMay 8, 2009
  5. Johannes SixtMay 8, 2009
  6. Michael J GruberMay 8, 2009

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