Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes: >> >> Somebody naming directories on the SVN side with the path component >> ":refs/remotes" in them could screw things up for us. > > Why not "simply" allow some form of escaping in refs, such that special > characters CAN be used anywhere. Then git-svn would just have to escape these > characters. > > Something like: > git update-ref "refs/remotes/tags/sometag\~1" $sha1 > > I'm pretty sure that could help fix a lot of other similar issues. Well, having had to do my fair level of porting shell-scripts and installation stuff and so on to Windows/MacOSX whatsoever where spaces (and other characters) in file names are considered business as usual: it is a bottomless pit. You'll always find one more place in your software that does not get this right. It may be a more confined problem to make the interoperation utility responsible for quoting/renaming. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
