From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Handling renames. Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:21:34 -0700 Message-ID: <425EB4AE.4010700@zytor.com> References: <1113501260.27227.26.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 14 20:19:04 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM8vS-0005aH-Ho for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:18:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261367AbVDNSWC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:22:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261378AbVDNSWC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:22:02 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:51341 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261367AbVDNSVx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:21:53 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-169-23-106.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.23.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3EILYn8009928 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:21:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1113501260.27227.26.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: > > Opinions? Dissent? We'd probably need to escape the filenames in some > way -- handwave over that for now. > For readability and simplicity I'd suggest using either URL-style %XX escapes or octal \xxx escapes for anything bytes < 33, minus the escape character. Although Linus is correct in that an SCM doesn't *have* to handle this, it really feels like shooting for mediocracy to me. We might as well design it right from the beginning. -hpa