Invalid names

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:35:47PM +0200, Marco Barisione wrote:
> I have a repo that contained files with names that are not valid under 
> Windows (for instance ":" or ">").
> Now those files are no more in the repository but they are still in the 
> history so I cannot clone it under Windows.
> 
> Is there a solution?

We've been discussing various schemes to escape names in the
repository so that you can a) always clone and b) check out versions
where the names aren't problematic.

There are some backwards compatibility and performance issues that
need to be dealt with still though.

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