Re: [PATCH] translate bad characters in refnames during git-svn fetch

> martin f krafft <madduck <at> madduck.net> wrote:
> > also sprach Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> [2007.07.16.0530 +0200]:
> > > The major issue with this is that it doesn't handle odd cases
> > > where a refname is sanitized into something (say "1234~2"
> > > sanitizes to "1234=2"), and then another branch is created named
> > > "1234=2".
> > 
> > Well, we can't please everyone, can we? :)
> > 
> > I like Jan's proposal about using the % escape, even though it
> > doesn't make pretty branch names.
> 
> I like it, too.  How about something like the two functions below?  This
> will break things a bit for people currently using % in refnames,
> however.
> 
> I think this will work rather nicely once I've figured out how the path
> globbing code works[1] and where to sanitize/desanitize the refnames
> properly.
> 
> It would be far easier to take your approach and sanitize them only
> for the command-line, but storing unsanitized git refnames into the
> .git/config is something I want to avoid:
> 
>   Somebody naming directories on the SVN side with the path component
>   ":refs/remotes" in them could screw things up for us.