From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 18:18:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548F516A41A for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:18:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1670113C48D for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:18:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id F194F208D; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4511208C; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C68C08444A; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:35 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Xin LI References: <46A8D037.9070000@delphij.net> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:18:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46A8D037.9070000@delphij.net> (Xin LI's message of "Fri\, 27 Jul 2007 00\:47\:51 +0800") Message-ID: <86lkd3uiys.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: wang cui , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to ignore files that have colon in their names, when CVS checkout. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:18:47 -0000 Xin LI 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