Todo #9236
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Rename japanese/prn directory to avoid windows names restriction issue
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Description
Hello,
Because of the 'japanese/prn' directory, users with windows 10 systems can't fetch repository.
Microsoft use special convention for files names : https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file
Do not use the following reserved names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.
I personnaly use Eclyps with eGit on Windows 10 computer and it is not possible to use https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports
Resulting in partial fetch, with always the same eclyps error : 'invalid path japanese/prn'
Someone experienced the same issue with other repository : http://kizu514.com/blog/forbidden-file-names-on-windows-10/
Maybe many developpers may have the same problem.
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
We don't have any control over that, it comes from FreeBSD as a part of the ports tree. The ports tree also contains files with colons in the name (or used to) and other non-Windows-friendly file and path names. Take it up with FreeBSD upstream, but I doubt it will change.
None of us develop on Windows, and every other operating system copes fine with the names.