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Re: [RFC] Canonical Paths

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-08-29 21:00:31 CEST

Hee hee.

This is fun. I hope, though, that Philip is now ignoring this
discussion and just doing Whatever He Thinks Is Right in the code.

:-)

-K

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>
> > I'm beginning to think that maybe we _should_ forbid certain
> > characters in filenames. Why? because not doing so will create an
> > interoperability nightmare for users. My candidates would be:
>
> I wonder if (some undetermined time in the future) it would be
> desirable to support file renaming on checkout. If you can't
> represent the filename in your current local and OS, it's renamed on
> checkout by mapping the characters to something that can be
> represented.
>
> This wouldn't really make sense for code, because your build scripts
> would be looking for the wrong names (unless you coded them in), but
> it could make sense for other documents.
>
> I'm not sure that this is a good idea, and there would be fiddly cases
> to worry about (like making sure the renamed file didn't conflict
> with a real file), but it might be worth thinking about.
>
> --
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
> That is not what room service means on Earth.
>
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