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I made it a policy to only use a-z, 0-9, and _ in any branch, file, folder, or any other 'names' in the cli. Basically anything I'd type in the cli as an identifier/name. I find it prevents weird issues with characters when scripting and such, since the rest of the shiftable symbols on the 1-0 row (*, &, etc.) tend to cause issues when used too much in names because they're also used as operators and stuff. I think I started doing that with Windows filenames, since it has so many limits, and it crossed over into my Linux cli workflow.



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