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Re: [PATCH] git-fetch --tags: deal with tags with spaces in them.

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:08

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:
We can disallow whitespace, and we *have* to disallow at least newline 
due to the file format; I believe we should disallow all control 
characters (0-31, 127-159.)
I agree.

Currently SP, TAB, and LF are all we care about, and nothing
else; NUL does not even count.  But if we are codifying a list
of disallowed byte values, excluding all control characters is
probably a sane thing to do, without introducing arbitrary and
unnecessary limitation too much.
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