[cvsnt] cvsnt and spaces

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Aug 11 12:22:46 BST 2003


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:19:31 +0400, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at sncnet.ru> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>  Is it still true that spaces shouldn't be used in file and directory names
>to be successfully stored in CVS? The InstallationTips file says that
>("there still are instances where the use of spaces breaks the CVS
>functionality badly"), but maybe that all has been fixed already?
>
You can get away with it, but scripts tend to barf unless they're written to
specifically cope with the escaping of spaces that cvsnt does.

Spaces in module names probably won't work.

Tony



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