On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Tony Papadimitriou <to...@acm.org> wrote:
> OK, thanks. > > But, what would be wrong with using / which is closer semantically, and > compatible to both Linux and Windows path syntax? > Just to avoid potential ambiguity and user confusion (because Unix users expect / to mean something very specific, having nothing at all to do with fossil). My concern is that using / as the prefix would eventually step on someone's toes, either confusing them or downright breaking some semantics (though i admittedly don't have an example which would break something). svn uses the ^ prefix as an alias for SVNROOT, so maybe that would be a good choice. i don't recall off hand whether ^ is a legal filename character for Fossil. The : would be a character which cannot possibly be used in fossil filenames names up to this point, making it safe for such usage. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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