Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 2, 2019, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1rwyv6tq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190902154732.GD18593@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> But it still risks losing a case where some code path relies on the crud
> cleanup for odd cases (mismatched delimiters, or interleaved delimiters,
> or non-delimiter crud mixed in with delimiters).
> ...
> So I dunno. There is no patch to be discussed, and I am not volunteering
> to write one.  So I think whoever chooses to do so has a lot of control
> over what is proposed. :)

Rather, they can propose what they want, but they have a lot of tough defending to do on their choice. Lack of potential harm is much harder to prove than coming up with a single example that harms.

I'd rather leave the sleeping dog lie, if we need to encourage people to live in 21st century and step outside US-ASCII to do so, then do that instead.