"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > A `+` is not a valid part of a filename with Windows file systems (it is > reserved because the `+` operator meant file concatenation back in the > DOS days). The title of the cover letter had "windows" in it, so calling '+' illegal was OK, but this patch does not. I'd rather not to take this patch, because "generate in the target with plus appended, make sure it succeeds, and then rename it to the real target" is quite an established pattern not limited to the Documentation/ directory of this project, if your tooling has been supporting it and can continue to do so (which was the impression I got from the cover letter). Even the top-level .gitignore file knows about it, so does the top-level Makefile and it uses the same pattern.
