[RFC] strip out trailing quote character in file paths?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Wed Dec 5 18:08:18 GMT 2007


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Aaron Bentley пишет:
> John Yates wrote:
>> On Wed. 2007-12-05 Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 
>>> Windows does not allow such character in paths when someone try to 
>>> create new file or directory (actually list of forbidden characters
>>> is \ / :  * ? " < > | ).
>> So I am sitting at a Linux box. I initiate an upstream branch and hope
>> to enlist Windows developers in my project.  Is there anyway that I can
>> configure my branch so that neither I nor any downstream Linux developer
>> can (accidentally?) shaft those Windows developers (e.g. by adding a
>> name that creates a case alias or includes a forbidden character)?
> 
> Not at present.  A modification of earlier ideas would be to have a
> user-configurable "cross-platform" flag on WorkingTree.  With that flag
> active, Bazaar would refuse to add files with filenames that were not
> cross-platform-compatible.
> 
> E.g. it could refuse
> 1. names containing any Windows special characters.
> 2. windows special names CON, LPT1, etc.
> 3. filenames that differ only in case from filenames already present.

IIUC, right now it's only possible with some hypothetical pre-commit plugin?
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