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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:09:13 -0400
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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. :)

-Peff