[PATCH 1 of 1] store: encode first space char in filenames (issue1713)

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Sat Aug 21 13:37:32 CDT 2010


On 21.08.2010 20:25, Augie Fackler wrote:
> 
> On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 19:57, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think it should have its own requirement. (and yes introducing this
>>> requirement at the same time as parentdelta is a good idea, reusing
>>> the requirement is not)
>>
>> +1.
>>
>> Can we also do something for that thing on OS X? I believe it was ._
>> or .# or something.
> 
> Yes, OS X will interpret anything starting with ._ as AppleDouble information, so .DS_Store becomes ._d_s... and then the OS sometimes "helpfully" cleans those files up. Let's fix that at the same time as leading spaces.
> 

Fine by me, but I lack access to an OS X. Never used one, so zero
hands-on knowledge about OS X from my side.

So I would need exact guidance on that aspect. Or patches on top of mine
would be nice.

Only *all* shades of Windows (MSDN Premium subscription available,
thanks to the CodePlex guys), Ubuntu and FreeBSD here.


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