From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 06:55:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disallow '\' in ref names Message-ID: <4A03D776.6070309@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <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? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://nordicmeetonnagios.op5.org/ Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.