On Apr 25, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Charles Bailey wrote:
>
>> On 4/25/05, Hinnerk Haardt <haardt@randnotizen.de> wrote:
>>> this:
>>>
>>>> $ svn ci
>>>> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>>>> $
>>>
>>> is caused by "^M":
>>>
>>>> $ ls -la
>>>> drwxr-xr-x 6 haardt haardt 204 12 Feb 2004 Contents
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 haardt haardt 0 11 Feb 2004 Icon?
>>>> $ ls <TAB> <TAB>
>>>> Contents Icon^M
>>>
>>> there's an newline in the filename and there are quite a few more of
>>> them hidden in Mac OS X applications. They can be found using
>>> something
>>> like "find . ! -name
>>> "*[a-z|A-Z|0-9|:|$|}|_|+|-|~|)|\!|\?|\]|\#|\.]"".
>>> They can not be seen in tho output of "find" but will show up on Bash
>>> autocompletion (hence the "<TAB> <TAB>" above).
>>
>> I'm not deeply familiar with svn internals, but this seems to arise
>> because path names are represented as XML in svn's admin files, and
>> control characters generate problems. While my reading of the XML 1.0
>> spec is that CR is strictly legal in CDATA, I'm not sure the parser
>> can distinguish between a CR that's part of the data and a CR that's
>> just whitespace (nor am I entirely sure that it should interpret an
>> unescaped CR as data; that's for better XML lawyers to decide).
>>
> CR is valid in XML and the parser should report it. We decided to
> disallow
> all control characters for various reasons.
>
>> For now, my experience has been that it's best to avoid filenames with
>> control chars in them. That does cause some problems on OS X, but I
>> don't know of a good work-around offhand.
>
> Does OS X apps make legitimate use of CR in file names?
The Icon^M file in a directory gives that directory a custom icon in
the Finder. They are a holdover from MacOS 9 but there are still a lot
of them out there. The "new" OS X format for icons are .icns files but
I'm not sure if you can do custom file directory icons with them (you
probably can, I just haven't found the docs yet).
stephen
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Received on Mon Apr 25 17:37:44 2005