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

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Tue Jun 17 04:27:41 CDT 2008


On 17.06.2008 10:53, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 17/06/2008, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>> Can we please stop advocating broken repositories on Windows
>> if we have a stupid simple, easy to implement and easy to mark
>> repository encoding?
> 
> Can I just quickly check something? Have we actually had a bug report
> from someone who has a repository with a reserved filename in it,
> which they can't use on Windows? I see no reason for rushing into a
> repo format change to address a purely theoretical issue. If we have a
> real-life problem, that adds weight. But I believe we already have
> real-life bug reports for problems with filenames that are too long,
> and the proposed change will make the situation slightly worse for
> this case - so we need to balance the 2 cases.

"Can I just quickly check something?"

Yes you can. If you reread my initial post that started this thread.

Here is the link again:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue793

> Of course, *all* of this is somewhat theoretical, as Matt has said he
> won't accept a repo change which doesn't solve both problems - and he
> has final say on this.

Sure. There won't be a rush for a repo change.

And hopefully there won't be a rush for a Mercurial hack that solves
the reserved names either (at least I hope so).


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