Illegal Filesystem characters in revision names

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:42 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On  7 Dec 2005, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 22:07 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> > My preference is to escape characters we dont want, which could be
> > anything outside the legitimate URL character set (i.e. all non-7bit
> > ascii characters and some of those too). This makes it as simple as
> > possible for interoperation with other systems that have an analagous
> > concept. I.e. to convert CVS one might use the CVS repository prefix +
> > the dotted decimal revision to create a bzr rev id.
> 
> OK, so I'm also in favor of escaping, but I just want the escaping to be
> done once only at the time the id is assigned, and then everything will
> use the escaped form.  I don't see any point in having it escaped in
> file names but not inside inventories, or (worse) escaped different
> ways.

I disagree - see Aarons reply for rationale :)

abently++ on this.

Rob

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