nvie/gitflow — comment on commit 5e8cc9fceb509848dee2cd62e98aadc29ffa146b
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By mhart:

I'm not so sure about the "not bothering our Unix users" bit - there's the extra overhead of calling out to sed, and anyone with a backslash in their directories will have it replaced (this will be very rare I realise).

What's the issue with checking for the OS?