Subject: Re: Handling renames.

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:21:34 -0700

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