On 20 Jul 2012, at 19:09, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:37:02PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> Am 20.07.2012 17:44, schrieb Jeff King: >>> So I think a suffix like ":d" is probably the least horrible. >> >> Not so. It does not work on Windows :-( in the expected way. Trying to >> open a file with a colon-separated suffix either opens a resource fork >> on NTFS or fails with "invalid path". > > Bleh. It seems that we did too good a job in coming up with a list of > disallowed ref characters; they really are things you don't want in your > filenames at all. :) How about using '@' as an escape character ? -Alexey. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html