Re: [proposal] --targets command line option

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> At least on Unix, there is nothing which prevents a file name from
> containing newlines. It is rare for people to do that, but not
> unheard of. Nor does the system object to control characters. Any
> solution which does not permit all nonzero byte values to appear in
> pathname arguments is incomplete.

I think we've already taken a stand on the whole filenames with
newlines thing, I seem to recall when we implemented the `svn:ignore'
property (where to-be-ignore glob-things exist one-per-line in the
property). We chose to deem those folks with such files as being "out
of luck." At some point a line of common sense must be drawn.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:37:10 2006