Re: [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Feb 23, 2010, 13:19 UTC
Message-ID: <4B83D5CC.9030206@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002231402350.3980@intel-tinevez-2-302>

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).

You may be refering to the copy command, where you can say

   copy a.txt+b.txt+c.txt abc.txt

to concatenate the source files. But this does not restrict how you can name your files. If you have a file a+b.txt and want to use it with copy, then you must use double-quotes:

   copy "a+b.txt" elsewhere.txt
   copy "a+b.txt"+c.txt abc.txt

-- Hannes