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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Filenames_with_colons_cause_problems_for_Windows_users.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Filenames_with_colons_cause_problems_for_Windows_users.mdwn index 54f1f3d81..b02239171 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Filenames_with_colons_cause_problems_for_Windows_users.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Filenames_with_colons_cause_problems_for_Windows_users.mdwn @@ -7,4 +7,37 @@ Windows does not support filenames containing any of these characters: `/ \ * : > I take it this is a problem when checking out a wiki in windows, not when > browsing to urls that have colons in them from windows? --[[Joey]] ->> Correct. You can't directly check out a wiki's repository from Windows if it includes filenames with those characters; you will get errors on those filenames.
\ No newline at end of file +>> Correct. You can't directly check out a wiki's repository from Windows if it includes filenames with those characters; you will get errors on those filenames. + +>>> Ok, first, if a windows user fails to check out ikiwiki's own svn^Wgit +>>> repo on windows due to the colons, that seems to be a bug in svn^Wgit +>>> on windows -- those programs should deal with colons in filenames being +>>> checked in/out somehow. Like they deal with windows using backslash +>>> rather than slash, presumably. And there's nothing ikiwiki can do if +>>> the source repo it's working on has a file with a problem character +>>> added to it, since the breakage will happen at the revision control +>>> system level. +>>> +>>> OTOH, there are some simple mods to ikiwiki that can make it escape +>>> colons etc the same way it already escapes other problem characters +>>> like "*", "?", etc. Without actually testing it, it should suffice to +>>> edit `IkiWiki.pm` and modify `titlepage` and `linkpage`, removing the +>>> colon from the character class in each. Also modify the +>>> `wiki_file_regexp` similarly. Then ikiwiki will read and +>>> write files with escaped colons, avoiding the problem. +>>> +>>> So that's a simple fix, but on the gripping hand, I can't just make +>>> that change, because it would break all existing unix-based +>>> wikis that actually contain colons in their filenames, requiring an +>>> annoying transition. I could do a OS test and do it in Windows, but then +>>> there would be interop problems if a Windows and non-windows system both +>>> acted on the same wiki source. +>>> +>>> So, I guess it has to be a config option, possibly defaulting on +>>> when the OS is Windows. And if being able to checkout/etc the wiki +>>> source on windows systems is desired, you'd have to remember to turn +>>> that on when setting up a wiki, even if the wiki was hosted on unix. +>>> +>>> BTW, I suspect there are lots of other problems with actually running +>>> ikiwiki on windows, including its assumption that the directory +>>> separator is "/". --[[Joey]] |