On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:41:33AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Sa den 10. Dez 2016 um 9:26 schrieb Jeff King: > > Yeah, I picked it arbitrarily as the common quoting character, but I > > agree it probably makes backwards compatibility (and general usability > > when you have to double-backslash each instance) pretty gross on > > Windows. > > Well, I don't know of many people using the original git on windows. > Most of them using some graphical third-party tools.
I laid out options for addressing the problem elsewhere, but I want to make clear that this line of reasoning is not likely to get any traction here. Git for Windows is a non-trivial part of the user base, and we do care about avoiding regressions there. -Peff
