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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Giuseppe Crinò" <giuscri@gmail.com>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Pratyush Yadav" <me@yadavpratyush.com>,
	"Emily Shaffer" <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	"Bryan Turner" <bturner@atlassian.com>,
	"Git Users" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:25:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1rwyv6tq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902154732.GD18593@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 2 Sep 2019 11:47:33 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-02 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 12:32 [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-22 15:06 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-22 16:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-23  7:20     ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-23  7:29       ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-22 16:06 ` René Scharfe
2019-08-22 16:58 ` Bryan Turner
2019-08-22 17:08   ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-22 18:43     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-23  8:29       ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-23  9:35         ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-23 10:15           ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-24 17:49         ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-25  8:09           ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-08-26 19:14         ` Jeff King
2019-08-27 13:51           ` Giuseppe Crino'
2019-08-27 14:33             ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-28 14:33           ` Giuseppe Crino'
2019-08-28 14:56             ` Jeff King
2019-08-31 13:17           ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-09-02 15:47             ` Jeff King
2019-09-02 19:25               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-09-02 19:50                 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-09-03  7:51                   ` Giuseppe Crinò
2019-09-03  9:03                     ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-23  8:26     ` SZEDER Gábor

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