Re: Renaming files on win32
Branko Čibej <[email protected]>
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Gili wrote: >On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:35:38 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > >>Gili wrote: >> >> >>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:16:08 +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote: >>> >>> >>>... >>> This covers all major cases off the top of my head. What do you >>>think? >>> >>> >>How do you handle other cases, such as >> >>1) Windows automativally loosing trailing dots and blanks, >> >>2) specific filenames that are illegal under Windows (con.*)? >> >> > > For case 1, you can store trailing dots or spaces by >surrounding the filename with quotes. For case two, that's fine, >Subversion already doesn't support this properly. We'd be stepping >closer to the ideal behavior -- I don't claim it would be perfect. > > Huh? You mean, in the filesystem? That won't work, because a) changing the file name would create other sorts of conflicts, and b) Windows filesystems don't allow quotes in file names. To be brutally frank, you seem to think we overlooked something obvious. We didn't. Sorry. -- Brane