From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:10:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch --tags: deal with tags with spaces in them.
Message-ID: <7v4q7mip30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <434D2D8F.2020407@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> We can disallow whitespace, and we *have* to disallow at least newline 
> due to the file format; I believe we should disallow all control 
> characters (0-31, 127-159.)

I agree.

Currently SP, TAB, and LF are all we care about, and nothing
else; NUL does not even count.  But if we are codifying a list
of disallowed byte values, excluding all control characters is
probably a sane thing to do, without introducing arbitrary and
unnecessary limitation too much.