On Thu, Jan 03 2013, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>>> I am unclear about how this is going to deal with queries containing
>>> newlines. For dump/restore I think this is not a problem (as Austin and
>>> others have said), but for batch tagging I think it could be; for
>>> example the query could be for a tag containing a newline.
>>
>> Yes, that's true, this patch series does not support queries with tags
>> with embedded newlines. They can still be removed (and added) via either
>> batch tagging or the command line. We could just live with this, or
>
> I think we should just live with it. It's a bunch of code with some UI
> wrinkles for a marginal feature.

Tags with newlines are psychotic.  We should just explicitly forbid them
by preventing them from ever being applied and then never have to worry
about them again.

jamie.