bad characters in filenames on windows

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:07 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

Do we need to worry about the weave format at all? Why not just change
the knit format ?

Rob
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