whitespace in revision ids

[Martin Pool]

On 07/04/2006, at 4:58 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

> I've just realised that we have considerable code that assumes  
> there are
> no whitespace minimally ( \r\n\t) characters in revision ids.
>
> I don't see any value in whitespace in revision ids (unlike non-ascii
> characters which are useful for representing uids) and quite a bit of
> potential for confusion.
>
> Can we make them explicitly banned ?

That's OK with me.  We should enforce that in the code if we're going  
to have it as a rule.

-- 
Martin