[fossil-users] Square brackets in filenames

2011-09-29 Thread Dmitry Chestnykh
What's the rationale for disallowing [ and ] in filenames? Are there any systems that don't like them (maybe FAT)? Or maybe this is due to collision with [wiki/ci links]? From file_is_simple_pathname(const char *z): ** * Does not contain any of these characters in the path: \*[]?

Re: [fossil-users] Square brackets in filenames

2011-09-29 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.comwrote: What's the rationale for disallowing [ and ] in filenames? Are there any systems that don't like them (maybe FAT)? Or maybe this is due to collision with [wiki/ci links]? Special characters like this are a

Re: [fossil-users] Square brackets in filenames

2011-09-29 Thread Benoit Mortgat
Actually, FAT and NTFS both support brackets in file names. I ran into this issue of brackets when trying to version uncompressed Office 2007 documents (docx is just a zip that contains xml files, including a [Content-Types].xml at the root). On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 13:43, Richard Hipp