On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.hee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 October 2012 18:53, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So why do you do it? Similar to putting spaces and question marks and >> quotation marks in file names, it can cause a lot of scripting >> confusion for your hook scripts. > > I did it once, because I didn't realise it would cause problems, and > it continues to bite me today. > > To be fair - SVN can handle all sorts of non-ASCII characters, spaces, > etc. so I didn't think that punctuation would be problematic. They're > valid on any filesystem in current use, and I write hook scripts in > Python, so string processing doesn't fall over with odd characters.
Understandable, but it can really bite the next person who works with your scripts or material. I've encountered a lot of adventures with non-7-bit-ASCII character sets over the years, and it leads to me doing a lot of sanitizing of filenames in hook scripts: usually, I prefer to simply reject such filenames in the pre-commit script.
