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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 81844] Re: backslash in filename causes InvalidEntryName etc

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 02:12:53PM -0000, Richard Wilbur wrote:
> Jelmer, thank you for all the work to improve brz/bzr. I have a few remaining questions:
> How does this fail on a DOS/Windows filesystem? We aren't flagging the backslash in filenames anymore with InvalidEntryName. Are we depending on the OS to throw an exception now? For the users' sakes I hope it is at least as explanatory as ours was.
>
> With this change we no longer even complain about the backslash in a
> filename. What about warning the user about incompatibility with
> DOS/Windows filesystems?
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