Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:35 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Cc: wang cui <iucgnaw@msn.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to ignore files that have colon in their names, when CVS checkout. Message-ID: <86lkd3uiys.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <46A8D037.9070000@delphij.net> (Xin LI's message of "Fri\, 27 Jul 2007 00\:47\:51 %2B0800") References: <BAY110-F23471D2AB3542DAEC03E8BA5F20@phx.gbl> <46A8D037.9070000@delphij.net>
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Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> writes: > If you have to check out that code, you should use an Operating System > which supports : in filenames, which means that Windows would not be a > good candidate. A better answer would be that these files should be repocopied to names consisting only of characters from the POSIX Portable Filename Character Set (basically [A-Za-z0-9._-]): http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_= 03_276 These files are a problem not only for Windows users, but also when burning the source tree to a CD or copying it to a FAT-formatted memory stick. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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