Illegal Filesystem characters in revision names

[John A Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:39:33 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> 

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> 
> Well, does it have to be a weave? What about replacing each of those
> directories 00 through ff with respective file 00.xml through ff.xml,
> that would contain concatenation of the files that would be in the
> directory (wrapped in some top-level tag)? A list of revisions included
> could be prepended, so you'd not have to read the whole file to know
> whether you have a revision.
> 

Well, I would avoid prepending and appending.

The nice thing about weaves is that they are changing to knits. :) So 
that we at least get append only, with a separate index file.

But for starters, I'm going to go with Martin's idea that illegal 
filesystem characters are just not allowed in file-ids or revision ids.

John
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