Re: patch for bug 7553: duplicate entries in vc-dir-mode (Windows) due to backslash from svn output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vagn Johansen <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:07:03 +0100
> 
> I reported bug 7663 some time ago:
> 
>   #7663 23.2; duplicate entries in vc-dir-mode (Windows) due to
>   backslash from svn output
> 
> Here is a patch with a one line fix.
> 
> The subversion command svn.exe I use on windows output backslashes. In
> all other places in vc-svn.el a call to expand-file-name causes these
> to replaced with forward slashes.

Thanks.

I think this replacement should be limited to MS-Windows and MS-DOS
systems, because on Posix platforms, the backslash is a valid
character in a file name.