backslash in file names

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:14 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I recently had to convert an Arch repository (formely CVS repository)
> where some file names had backslashes in them.  bzr-import burped
> on them.  It seems that Bzr does not support such file names, even
> though they work just fine in CVS and even in Arch.
> 
> I understand that backslashes in file names can be problematic under
> w32, but when converting existing repositories we don't have the luxury
> to adapt the file names to the constraints imposed by the tool.
> 
> Could we change the check in inventory.py so that when it encounters
> a backslash it emits a warning rather than signalling an error?
fwiw, there is a bug open about this, 81844:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/81844

Cheers,

Jelmer
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