From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:30:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames
Message-ID: <7v64s7svya.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051008133032.GA32079@localhost>

Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net> writes:

> Instead of using //{LF}// and //{TAG}// to quote embedded tab and
> linefeed characters in pathnames use URI quoting.
>
> '\t' becomes %09
> '\n' becomes %10
> '%' becomes %25
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>

This would break existing setup where people *has* per-cent
letter in their pathname -- which I think is worse than the
backslash proposal.