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Case in point

Posted Mar 25, 2009 21:11 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

One of the reasons git replaced many shell scripts with C code was support for weird file names. C is better at handling them. In absence of such issues, many commands would have remained shell scripts, which are easier to improve.

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