Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 07:47:26 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' Message-ID: <6F841487-00DB-4BD7-8DDB-9515D82B16CD@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org>
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On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:30 AM, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > When I am using mercurial to initialize a freebsd repository, it prints > "warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' > > it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone > wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. There are other problems as well. We have some directories that have mixed case and lower case versions of the same file. This trips up OS unless you specifically format your disk to be case sensitive… Warner
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