On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Stefan Bellon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov, Jan Nijtmans wrote:
>
> > This sounds like a bug in the SVN ->fossil converter, not
> > in fossil itself.
>
> Just to avoid any misunderstanding: I am not using any converter. I
> just did
>
> $ cd svn_working_copy
> $ fossil init myproject.fossil
> $ fossil open --keep myproject.fossil
> $ fossil addremove
>
> And then got the message.
>
> > Quotes are not illegal in fossil, but the backslash character is.
>
> Ok, so then this *IS* the problem. I am trying to add a filename called
>
>   str\i\ng.h
>
> to the repository.
>

The \ character is problematic because Windows cannot contain that
character in filenames (except as a separator between directory and file
names).  If you were allowed to check this file into Fossil, then the
repository could not be checked out on Windows.



>
> So there's no way around than to omit this file from the fossil
> repository and generated it on the fly with some Makefile?
>
> Greetings,
> Stefan
>
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> Stefan Bellon
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