Comment 20 for bug 81844
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| Richard Wilbur (richard-wilbur) wrote Re: [Bug 81844] Re: backslash in filename causes InvalidEntryName etc | #20 |
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On Jan 13, 2018, at 18:31, Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> wrote:
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> The reason to be careful with support for backslashes is that it's impossible to check out files with backslashes in their name on Windows, and that Bazaar treats backslashes as path separators.
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>> On 14 January 2018 08:45:14 GMT+08:00, Richard Wilbur <email address hidden> wrote:
>> I see Jelmer has a branch that looks like it fixes this bug by adding
>> support in bzr core for backslashes in filenames. Could someone
>> explain to me the drawbacks of supporting backslashes in filenames? I
>> don't understand why we haven't already merged this branch into trunk
>> several years ago aside from the fact no one has yet proposed a merge.
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