Phil,
Yes, I tested that too. Interestingly, tab fails but space is OK.
So with a UTF-8 filesystem, I wonder what else misbehaves?
Since there are only two characters that cannot be used in UNIX file
elements (null and "/"), this seems
a bit restrictive, even as an SCM system.
Translating with URI substitutions might work, but it will be a bit
painful!
Mark.
Philipp Marek wrote:
On Sunday 09 July 2006 15:22 Philipp Marek wrote:
Hello Mark,
On Thursday 06 July 2006 10:56 Mark J Hewitt wrote:
Are you planning to relieve the restriction on whitespace in filenames?
To be honest I didn't even know that there is such a restriction.
It's time to extend the fsvs-internal tests, I believe.
...
You're of course completely right - that must work.
...
I now had a bit of time to look at that.
The good news: fsvs does nothing wrong.
The bad news: svn doesn't allow "special" characters in filenames.
Look here:
/tmp$ svnadmin create t
/tmp$ mkdir z
/tmp$ cd z
/tmp/z$ svn co file:///tmp/t/ .
Ausgecheckt, Revision 0.
/tmp/z$ touch "tab file"
/tmp/z$ svn add *
svn: Ungültiges Steuerzeichen '0x09' in Pfad 'tab file'
/tmp/z$ LC_ALL=C svn add *
svn: Invalid control character '0x09' in path 'tab file'
Or take a look at the end of subversion/libsvn_subr/path.c:
svn_error_t *svn_path_check_valid(const char *path, apr_pool_t *pool)
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Issue 1954 does mention that problem - although from another angle
(http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1954)
If I read http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2004-11/1063.shtml correctly
subversion will *not* allow special characters in filenames; but I'll start a
discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED].
If subversion doesn't allow special characters, I'd think fsvs *must* do some
(internal) translation for them (eg. "\t" -> "	") and record somehow that
this filename must be de-translated.
[I believe that a backup-tool *must* be able to store *all* files - not only
those which "look right"!]
Although fsvs won't be strictly svn-compliant (but it's not anymore, since it
allows versioning of devices too - and these cannot be checked out with
subversion).
If you like, look for the discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED]; but I'll
surely report the final words here.
Thank you *very much* for reporting this!
Regards,
Phil
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