This is the only excluded character. I seem to remember there was a reason for
this, but
I forget why.
Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> All my cfengine configuration files are in subversion and i want to use the
> svn keywords for version control. So i put in my promises.cf:
> body common control
> {
> version => "$Revision$ $Author$";
> }
>
> This will be expanded to:
>
> body common control
> {
> version => "$Revision: 4445 $ $Author: bas $";
> }
>
> Now cf-agent complains:
> !! The version string may not contain the ":" character
>
> Why is this not allowed? For me it is easy to see which version is used and
> can easily check it against the svn tree
>
>
>
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Mark Burgess
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Oslo University College, Norway
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