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

John Yates jyates at netezza.com
Wed Dec 5 21:37:31 GMT 2007


Aaron Bentley wrote:

> 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.

Alexander Belchenko replied:

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

Perhaps a "mandatory plugin" mechanism.  This would fail if the plugin
was unavailable or not up to date.  That of course begs the question of
how to verify "up to date-ness" without network access...

/john


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