RFC: loosening file name limits

[Martin Pool]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> So we have a number of limits on file names.
>
> must be unicode
> must not contain \\ and various other unportable characters
> must serialise cleanly within our various storage formats
>
> I think the first constraint is very useful for portability; the
> following is not about that.
>
> The second constraint can be regarded as bzr being a guardian - which
> just gets in the way sometimes.
>
> We don't guard against many other user-code portability issues like
> having "README" and "Readme" in a single dir; I think we should get rid
> of the second constraint in favour of a nag/warn system where unportable
> tree layouts are [optionally] warned about but not prohibited.

I think that would be great.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>