Re: [Monotone-devel] bug report: windows monotone can't check out files with parentheses in the name

[Jack Lloyd]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:29:06PM +0200, Ilkka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I copied a database file over from linux to windows and tried to check
> out a branch that contains a file that has parentheses in the name.
> This is the message that I got:
> 
> mtn: fatal: boost::filesystem::filesystem_error:
> boost::filesystem::path: invalid name "Merijn de Jonge: Build-Level
> Components (IEEE ToSE).pdf" in path: "Merijn de Jonge: Build-Level
> Components (IEEE ToSE).pdf"

Are you sure it is the parenthesis that is the problem? I had thought
that the : character was not allowed in a Windows filename, since it
is the seperator between volume name and path. (This seems to be what
is said in this MS KB article, as well -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506)

-Jack