Re: [PATCH] Disallow '\' in ref names

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in
Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results.

NAK. We allow / on unixy systems, and that's the path separator there.
Junio even makes extensive use of it to create per-contributor
namespaces for topic-branches.

Are you guessing this might be a problem in the future, or have you
actually run into it?

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