Re: current directory (...) contains an invalid character (+,>;=\t\n)

[Larry Jones]

Rolf Krahl writes:
> 
> | $ cvs edit assemble.c
> | cvs [edit aborted]: current directory \
> |       (/home/rolf/progs/navier-albert/src/2+3d) contains an \
> |       invalid character (+,>;=\t\n)
> 
> The directory indeed contains a '+' character.  With the old CVS, this
> didn't caused any trouble.

It didn't cause any trouble that you noticed.  The file that CVS uses to
keep track of editing information uses those characters as delimiters,
so having them in a directory name confuses CVS and makes various edit
functions not work right, frequently with very obscure error messages. 
The only change was to provide a clear error message right aways rather
than planting a time bomb to blow up later.

-Larry Jones

I don't want to be THIS good! -- Calvin