[PATCH 0 of 3 stable] fix check for trailing whitespace

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Thu Aug 9 02:52:43 CDT 2012


On 2012-08-09 09:27, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2012-08-08 18:11, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>> This is a candidate for stable because it makes Augie's patches readable ;-)
> 
> On a somewhat unrelated matter:
> 
> Re (was this posted to the list?):
> http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew/diff/2da47de36b6f/tests/test-import-git.t#l1.14
> :
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> Quote: '''Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period.
> Although the underlying file system may support such names, the Windows
> shell and user interface does not. ... '''
> 
> (Mads' change did not introduce files with spaces, they were already
> there. So this comment of mine is somewhat off-topic.)

Oh, I see now that the filename ends with a tab... (not spaces).

I haven't tested filenames with tabs yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if
this would be almost equally funny on Windows as files ending with spaces.


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