Re: File not accepted as valid addition to svn

On 12.02.2018 18:41, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:54:00 +0000, Philip Martin
> <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Bo Berglund <bo.berglund_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> svn add Fasadändring&Attefalltillbyggnad.pdf
>>> svn: warning: W155010: 'D:\Bosse\Fasadändring' not found
>> '&' has special meaning to the shell and needs to be quoted or escaped.
> I always thought that this was the case only for Linux, since & is a
> perfectly valid part of a file name on Windows...
> But I will refrain from such characters in paths in the future.

The Windows shell has special characters, too. As far as file names are
concerned, Unix filesystems typically allow _more_ characters than
Windows filesystems.

-- Brane
Received on 2018-02-12 23:13:48 CET