Re: Issue with directory name that includes dash like " - " ...

[pranayvora]

On Jul 6, 3:01 am, "Rick Genter" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > On Behalf Of Larry Jones
> > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:17 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Issue with directory name that includes dash
> > like " - " ...
>
> > address@hidden writes:
>
> > > During this operation, we noticed that whenever we had a directory
> > > name that had a space-dash-space (" - ") in it, the
> > checkout operation
> > > used to modify it to space-question-space (" ? ")
>
> > What versions of CVS are you running?  (Do ``cvs version'' in the
> > checked-out directory to find out for sure.)
>
> > I am not able to reproduce your problem, so it may be a Red Hat
> > modification (probably to avoid the dash in the name being
> > misinterpreted as the start of a command option).
>
> I believe another possibility is that the "dash" wasn't not an ASCII
> hyphen (0x2D) but a non-ASCII character that looks like a hyphen
> (extended ASCII 0xC4, Unicode 0x2010), and that the local system's
> encoding doesn't allow for such characters.
> --
> Rick Genter
> Principal Software Engineer
> Silverlink Communications- Hide quoted text -
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Hi Rick,

This could be a possibility worth exploring.

However, the directories when added to the repository, were first
created on windows box (dev client workstation) and then added using
WinCVS client. What I would like to ask is would this different ascii
hyphen character by due to the client OS ? Ideally, the dev user when
creating the directory would use the std hyphen (on the keyboard) and
chances of the hyphen from extended ASCII being typed is quite less,
unless someone deliberately adds it that way.

Regards
Pranay