[Monotone-devel] invalid file name

[Peter Simons]

I'm trying to put my home directory under version control using, but
as of now, monotone will choke on the following file name:

    "News/nnml:mail.list.ac-archive-maintainers.ADAPT"

     *** Error: std::runtime_error: boost::filesystem::path: invalid name
                "nnml:mail.list.ac-archive-maintainers.ADAPT" in path:
                "nnml:mail.list.ac-archive-maintainers.ADAPT"

Now my problem is that this file is generated by Emacs (and _lots_ of
others just like it), so I cannot remove it, I cannot rename it,
nothing. I _could_ tell Emacs to put those score files outside of my
home directory, but I don't really want to do that, obviously.

I have configured monotone to ignore the whole "News/" directory, so
that I can work in the directory at all. But any attempt to call "ls
unknown" or "ls ignored" will fail with the above error.

I guess the ':' as part of the file name is causing the problem. So I
wonder: How do I handle cases where files _do_ contain the colon and I
cannot change that? Is there any chance to get the file under version
control? Is there any change to tell monotone to _really_ ignore those
files, so that "ls unknown" will not fail?

Peter