Re: File not accepted as valid addition to svn

On Feb 12, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.

Nevertheless I try to avoid filenames that create difficulties under either system because we have a mix Windows, Mac, and *nix. Each comes with its idiosyncrasies. Oh, and sometimes build systems don't escape everything correctly. Just my 2 cents.
Received on 2018-02-13 04:25:23 CET