Windows people: please help check idea for a new Mercurial repository layout

Gregory Collins greg at maptuit.com
Fri Jun 13 18:27:28 CDT 2008


Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> I am currently trying to improve the situation described
> at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue793
> ("Can't clone repos that use Windows reserved names in paths",
> see also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx)
>
> The problem is that on Windows, we cannot save a tracked file or directory
> with the name, for example, "aux" inside the .hg directory, because it would be
> stored as "aux.i" (and possibly "aux.d"), which is forbidden as well
> (see issue793).

Windows also prohibits filenames with colons; I've been bitten by this
before.

G.


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