Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting

[Kevin Smith]

graydon hoare wrote:
> no doubt. but neither will pretending like we can "intelligently"
> guess when a user means to have leading or trailing spaces and when
> they do not. apparantly some users do. windows users seem to like
> this stuff.

In all my years of Windows, I can't remember ever seeing a leading or 
trailing space in a filename. Spaces *within* filenames, sure. But not 
leading or trailing.

I would want to be really sure that such things are common before 
designing a sub-optimal file format around them.

If you really want to handle any wacky characters, you might want to 
require unusual filenames to be surrounded by quotes. But I'm not really 
sure how this .mt-attrs file is used, so I'll be quiet now.

Kevin