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Re: Files with trailing dots on Windows

From: Christian Stork <cstork_at_ics.uci.edu>
Date: 2006-02-06 18:08:37 CET

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:14:37PM +0100, von Löwis Martin wrote:
...
> > Subversion does its best to not be wrong but if the platform
> > fundamentally can not support some name or pattern, then don't use it.

> I wouldn't mind if Subversion refused to even put the file on
> my disk.

Maybe there is a feasible compromise then:

Have subversion's WC code check filenames on check-out/rename/...
against a regex of filesystem-specific problematic file names. Then
take some appropriate action: warn, error out, or maybe even rename.

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