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From: Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:03:05 +0200
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Cc: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
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On 20 Jul 2012, at 19:09, Jeff King wrote:

> 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. :)

How about using '@' as an escape character ?

-Alexey.