Files with trailing dots on Windows

I would like subversion to support files with trailing dots on Windows.
I mentioned the issue on #svn, and darix suggested I report it here.

One use case for that is

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Mac/IDE%20scripts/

where "Insert folder name..." has trailing dots. On checking out the
tree, subversion creates a file "Insert folder name" instead, and
subsequently reports that the tree was modified (with the original file
missing). svn revert will try to create the missing file, but fail
just as the original checkout failed.

I know that it is not subversion which drops the trailing dots, but
CreateFile.

However, there are solutions/work-arounds available, which I think
subversion should use.

For this specific problem, escaping the path name with \\?\ would
help. To see how this works, try running

  notepad.exe \\?\c:\foo.txt...

This will happily create a file with trailing dots in ist name;
Microsoft even documents it in the Win32 API (somewhere).

May I file a bug report for that issue?

Regards,
Martin

P.S. If you were interested in supporting case-sensitive file names
also (i.e. having two files in the same directory that only differ
in case): that would be possible through FILE_FLAGS_POSIX_SEMANTICS
for CreateFile - unfortunately, you would have to use NtDeleteFile
for removal...

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Received on Fri Jan 20 19:54:38 2006