Hi, I looked at the offending files and the brackets as you may have guessed contained incremental numerals. something[1].bin, something[2].bin, etc. Given the filenames are accepted by the O/S, wouldn't it be more prudent to optionally allow these and other wildcards? I'm no fan of branching off for want of a file filter. ;)
-Steve On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> This weekend I was shouting praises of Fossil to a friend in the >> release business and he summarily shot me down with a simple attempt >> to add his Subversion based repository. >> Fossil failed on filenames containing brackets - []. Huh? >> Browsing the mail shows this to be a known issue. >> Browsing the responses came up short. >> Any glaring reason(s) for not allowing certain wildcards in filenames? > > The reason such names are disallowed is because they are prone to error. > Not in Fossil itself, but in other software. For example: optional external > merge and diff programs that people might choose to set up. So for safety's > sake , Fossil goes to the extra trouble of disallowing them. > > Note that it is extra code that checks for these filenames and disallows > them. This is not a "bug". It is a feature I deliberately introduced and > which I am loath to take out. > > But if you really want to disable it, it is simply a matter of commenting > out some code. > > >> >> Especially when competing SCM's are already past this... >> >> I don't use these characters myself, and continue to use Fossil. >> >> -Steve >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
