From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002231541431.3980@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e1002230532n6e692fd0p8fa5d599c21a1873@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> >> May I caution against allowing "+" as part of filenames? On Windows,
> >> thanks to the DOS garb^Wheritage, "+" is not really allowed...
> >
> > I don't think that's true (and I also think it never was).
> >
> 
> Wikipedia doesn't seem to think so either:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words

Okay, I stand corrected, and therefore gladly retract my objections!

Ciao,
Dscho