From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:33:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] translate bad characters in refnames during git-svn fetch
Message-ID: <85lkd13rts.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070728T091909-416@post.gmane.org>

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes:
>> 
>>   Somebody naming directories on the SVN side with the path component
>>   ":refs/remotes" in them could screw things up for us.
>
> Why not "simply" allow some form of escaping in refs, such that special
> characters CAN be used anywhere. Then git-svn would just have to escape these
> characters.
>
> Something like:
> git update-ref "refs/remotes/tags/sometag\~1" $sha1
>
> I'm pretty sure that could help fix a lot of other similar issues.

Well, having had to do my fair level of porting shell-scripts and
installation stuff and so on to Windows/MacOSX whatsoever where spaces
(and other characters) in file names are considered business as usual:
it is a bottomless pit.  You'll always find one more place in your
software that does not get this right.

It may be a more confined problem to make the interoperation utility
responsible for quoting/renaming.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum