Re: ntfs naming conventions

Concerning Re: ntfs naming conventions
Ryan Schmidt wrote on 15 Sep 2009, 22:49, at least in part:

> On Sep 15, 2009, at 22:34, Andras Igneczi wrote:
>
> > It is not so important, I think, but the subversion can't create or
> > use folders ending with space, like that: " aaaa ". I think, the
> > ntfs doesn't prohibit the space at the begin and the end of the
> > names. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100108/en)
[...]
> I don't know. Wikipedia says filenames may not end with a space or a
> period on Windows (making no distinction based on filesystem):

Dunno about spaces, yet by typos I have encountered filenames*
ending with a period on NTFS under W2K/XP w/o problem. Not in
combination with SVN though.

* in the form of filename..ext; not sure about just filename.

JH

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