Launchpad svn/git imports failure causes

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 15:59 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 10 September 2010 15:33, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> >>>  * paths with \
> >> +1, fixing this bug would fix quite a few imports (the largest group
> >> after nested trees) and it seems like a generally useful feature to
> >> have.
> >
> > And what will be a fix? And how it affects windows compatibility?
> > I don't mind if you say: those branches cannot be checked out on the
> > windows though. But will be nice if bzr won't traceback in this case
> > and suggest something to poor users. Just my 5 kopecks.
> 
> Well, I would probably approach it by, in the first step, letting you
> have \ in internal structures and refusing to check them out on
> Windows.  Then I would try to make sure they can work with views to
> let you get a checkout that excludes that path.  Then perhaps we could
> support views that remap paths.
I think it would also make sense to warn users when they add a file with
a name that has a backslash in it that that character isn't supported on
all platforms. Supporting backslashes shouldn't mean we can't discourage
users from using them.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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