[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [BUG] feature plan -- downstream branches

[Matthew Dempsky]

Andrew Suffield wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:41:41AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > I don't think ":" is a permitted file name character on Windows.

It's not -- nor are these: \ / * < > | ? "

> And it's the host delimiter on unix.

That doesn't seem to stop me from creating a file with : in it though.

; might work, though it'd have to be escaped on the command line 
(manually because you'll probably either want to complete foo--devo--1.0 
or foo--devo;bug69--1.0) and we already get enough complaints about 
=tagging-method and =build.

-jivera