From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:11:35 GMT Subject: Re: Re: Moving a directory into another fails Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > [core] > > escapefilenames = true > > I think this goes too far. Sure., I agree that in _practice_ this isn't actually a problem, because people have long since learnt to avoid strange filenames in SCM's, simply because you can't get it right with insane filesystems. That said, it might be a good idea to abstract out the create/read phase for filenames in the working tree regardless, since that also tends to be an area where other issues can come up (whoops - '/' vs '\' as the directory separator etc).