Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 06, 2006 21:29:49 +0200:
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> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
> change.

May be make metacharacters the default behaviour, but provide a
command-line option to disable it? It'll be seldom used, but would
provide a way to disambiguate input for scripts and make possible
(even if a bit harder) to use such filenames.

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