Re: [Monotone-devel] Bug in monotone automate inventory

[Jon Bright]

Emile Snyder wrote:
> No, this is clearly a bug in monotone.  You created a legal file on your
> system in the working copy, and monotone choked and died.  Thanks for
> digging and figuring it out,

An interesting question - should monotone allow you to create any old 
filename, or should it restrict you to names with half a chance of being 
cross-platform compatible?  I'd argue for at least the default to be the 
latter, on the grounds that

a) Almost no-one really, really wants that file to be called that (as in 
this case)
b) Otherwise, monotone gets to play fun games when it tries to check 
that file out on a system that doesn't support that as a filename...

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Jon Bright
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