[Anthill] anthill - subversion tags and versions (period not an underscore)

[Kenneth Burgener]

Jim Hague wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2008 00:40:34 Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> As I think you have guessed, this is a straightforward cockup. The version is 
> edited when making the tag, but the same edit is not done when checking out a 
> versioned copy.
> 
> The characters '$,.:;@' are all converted to '_', I think because of some 
> vague notion that you might check out the tags tree at some point and they 
> might cause problems with some filesystems. Including '.' is probably 
> unnecessarily conservative.
> 
> I am inclined to both fix this - run the version label through the same edit 
> on checkout - and to remove '.' (and maybe ',' and ';') from the troublesome 
> characters. Any thoughts?


I don't necessarily have a problem with there being a edit to protect 
the file system.  I know that Windows does have issues with file names 
starting or ending with a period (ie ".hello_world" or "hello_world.", 
although the former can be created if not using the GUI).  I do fully 
agree, if you are going to do an edit on the tagging, there should be 
the edit on the checkout as well.  The characters '.', ',' and ';' all 
appear to be acceptable as folder names (with the exception of '.' 
starting and ending a file name), so they should probably all be acceptable.


Thanks,
Kenneth