Comment 25 for bug 81844

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 81844] Re: backslash in filename causes InvalidEntryName etc

On 14 January 2018 15:48:18 GMT+08:00, Richard Wilbur <email address hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:45 AM, Richard Wilbur
><email address hidden> wrote:
>> I guess it would be nice if there were some way to modify a branch
>> under Windows so it was usable if it had come from a branch created
>> with an offending filename.
>
>Maybe even better to warn them when they branch into a DOS/Windows
>filesystem that the tree contains a problematic filename?

At that point, it's an error - not a warning. We can't check out files with backslashes in the names on Windows.

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