On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Stephan Beal<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Janssen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I noticed fossil will not add files containing any of the characters >> "\*[]?". If I remove the checks for these chars, I cannot find any >> adverse effects. Is there a specific reason these characters are >> forbidden? > > The "?:*" characters are forbidden by FAT/VFAT filesystems. i cannot account > for the "[]" being forbidden - it may be limited on other platforms (i just > tried it on WinXP and Solaris 10, and "[]" are allowed there). > > > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ >
Hmmm for [] VMS comes to mind. So fossil takes the common denominator for file names on all platforms? Although that's certainly good for portability of the repos, it does limit the artifact names you can use. Renaming the artifacts to a name which is allowed, is not always an option. Perhaps a warning would be more appropriate? _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
