bad characters in filenames on windows

[Martin Pool]

On 09/04/2006, at 5:46 PM, Robey Pointer wrote:

> It's been brought to my attention that the paramiko bzr tree is  
> unusable on Windows because of illegal characters in filenames or  
> revision names.  Supposedly this can be fixed by some manual  
> process but will be fixed "better" in an upcoming bzr release where  
> metafiles are quoted.
>
> Is 0.8 that release? :)
>
> Is there something I can do using an up-to-date bzr.dev that will  
> fix the paramiko branch for Windows users?

I'm working on a patch that changes it now, based on code from John.   
It will introduce a new weave based format and change the in- 
development knit format so that characters disallowed by windows are  
quoted like in urls.

-- 
Martin