Re: svn commit: rev 6453 - in trunk/tools/cvs2svn: . test-data/bogus-tag-cvsrepos test-data/bogus-tag-cvsrepos/CVSROOT

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> mark benedetto king wrote:
> ...
> > Some quick testing shows me that my CVS (1.10 'Halibut') does indeed
> > allow '/' in tags.
> >
  [...]
> > $ cvs tag a. foo
> > cvs [tag aborted]: tag `a.' must not contain the characters `$,.:;@'
> >
  [...]
> >
> > 3.) map the '/' to another character. I propose '.', in particular,
> > because it is not allowed in CVS tag names, so this mapping
> > will not cause any collisions.
>
> Dots at the end of the filename don't work on Windows.
> If option 3 is chosen, please could one of the other invalid characters be
> used? Maybe ','?
>

Ah, good thinking. Yes, ',' is probably better than the others.

--ben

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Received on Sat Jul 12 17:09:33 2003