Re: [fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Bill Whiting
I thought about VMS as well, but the [] is just specifying subdirectories. I think any code to port fossil to VMS should do the translation from [.SRC.MYAPP.DB]CONNECT.C and store the path as ./src/myapp/db/connect.c. Then the file will checkout on any platform. As for filenames, that's a li

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: >> >> Hmmm for [] VMS comes to mind. >> So fossil takes the common denominator for file names on all >> platforms? > > It sounds that way. > >> >> Although that's certainly good for portabil

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > Hmmm for [] VMS comes to mind. > So fossil takes the common denominator for file names on all > platforms? It sounds that way. > Although that's certainly good for portability of the > repos, it does limit the artifact names you can use.

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Janssen > 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 re

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Janssen 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

[fossil-users] Fossil cannot add filenames with "\*[]?"

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Janssen
Hi, 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? Regards, Mark ___ fossil-users mailin