[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 3""" date="2014-12-01T22:33:23Z" content=""" Mattias seems to be wrong. It may be that some of the shell script parts of git don't support it, or that parts of git has bugs. But as far as git's data representation is concerned, \n is a character like any other, and eg `git add` and `git commit` deal with it just fine. (\0 is a different story..) """]]