Re: git-fast-import doc problem and git-fast-export does not quote filenames correctly
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 4, 2010, 16:48 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 01:17, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> The first problem is that the doc seems to allow NUL bytes (which I > suspect are not really allowed)
Fast import keeps reading until it finds a '\n' and stores data in a strbuf, so I don't see why 'NUL' would not be allowed.
> or the backslash '\' character (which, > if allowed, would logically have to be escaped, too).
Backslashes are allowed, and it seems they need to be escaped as usual. Perhaps Shawn can confirm that this should just be updated in the docs.
> The second problem is that "git fast-export" does not do even the > specified quoting:
That's a bug with fast-export then :)
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier