Re: [PATCH v8] format-patch: allow a non-integral version numbers

> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> > To protect against that problem, you may need to call
> > format_sanitized_subject() manually after formatting "v%s-". (I'm just
> > looking at this code for the first time, so I could be hopelessly
> > wrong. There may be a better way to fix it.)
>
> Yes, slash is of course very problematic, but what we've been doing
> to the patch filenames was to ensure that they will be free of $IFS
> whitespaces and shell glob special characters as well, and we should
> treat the "reroll count" just like the other end-user controlled
> input, i.e. the title of the patch, and sanitize it the same way.
>
> So I am pretty sure format_sanitized_subject() is the right way to
> go.