Subject: Re: [PATCH] translate bad characters in refnames during git-svn fetch

From: martin f krafft <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:47:31 +0200

also sprach Eric Wong <[email-masked]> [2007.07.16.0530 +0200]:
> The major issue with this is that it doesn't handle odd cases
> where a refname is sanitized into something (say "1234~2"
> sanitizes to "1234=2"), and then another branch is created named
> "1234=2".

Well, we can't please everyone, can we? :)

I like Jan's proposal about using the % escape, even though it
doesn't make pretty branch names.

On the other hand, we could make the translation regexps
configurable...

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