warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Mar 7 14:47:28 UTC 2014
On Mar 7, 2014, at 12:30 AM, David Xu <davidxu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> When I am using mercurial to initialize a freebsd repository, it prints
> "warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'
>
> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone
> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem.
There are other problems as well. We have some directories that have mixed case and
lower case versions of the same file. This trips up OS unless you specifically format your
disk to be case sensitive…
Warner
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