[[!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..)
"""]]
