Hi Junio,

On Mon, 15 May 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for the hotfix. I'll fix this in my v2, but do it differently
> > in such a way that I can still run these tests on windows.
> >
> > I.e. the actual test here just needs these odd characters in the
> > commit message. It's just an unintended implementation detail of
> > test_commit that a tag is being created.
> 
> My knee-jerk reaction matched Dscho's, but grep is about contents,
> and we should be able to test this if we used a sensible tagnames or
> didn't use any.  Glad to see somebody can step back and think ;-)

Maybe somebody should step back even further and think even more, as we
could adjust test_commit to mangle the argument into a tag name that is
legal even with a refs backend relying on NTFS.

Ciao,
Dscho