From: Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:03:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Message-ID: <B0A78CAD-49FA-4E03-86C0-1AA4023E60B7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120720170913.GA14057@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 20 Jul 2012, at 19:09, Jeff King wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:37:02PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
>> Am 20.07.2012 17:44, schrieb Jeff King:
>>> So I think a suffix like ":d" is probably the least horrible.
>> 
>> Not so. It does not work on Windows :-( in the expected way. Trying to
>> open a file with a colon-separated suffix either opens a resource fork
>> on NTFS or fails with "invalid path".
> 
> Bleh. It seems that we did too good a job in coming up with a list of
> disallowed ref characters; they really are things you don't want in your
> filenames at all. :)

How about using '@' as an escape character ?

-Alexey.