On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 5:57 PM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 04:10:21PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM brian m. carlson > > > - tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$2" >"$exp" && > > > + tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$2" >"$exp+" && > > > > My immediate thought upon reading this was whether "+" is valid in > > Windows filenames. Apparently, it is, but perhaps (if you re-roll) it > > would make sense to use a character less likely to cause brain > > hiccups; for instance, "exp0'. > > The reason I picked that is that we use it quite a bit in the Makefile, > so it seemed like an obvious choice for a temporary file name. If you > feel strongly I can pick something else, but I thought it would be > reasonably intuitive for other developers. Maybe I was wrong, though. I don't feel strongly about it. My brain tripped over it probably because it's not an idiom in Git tests. In fact, I see just one place where "+" has been used like this, in t6026.
