[rdiff-backup-users] Automatic setting of "chars_to_quote"

[Robert Shaw]

Hi All,

I'm using the latest build (from CVS) of rdiff-backup on a Mac OS X 
system. It seems to be working well (handles the resource forks and the 
like). However, I noticed a slightly annoying behavior that I'd like to 
be able to control, or get changed.

The rdiff-backup code properly recognizes the destination backup drive 
as "case-insensitive" (i.e. HFS), and the source drive as 
"case-insensitive" (i.e. also HFS) and thus enables character quoting 
for capitalized letters (A-Z). However, for me, this is annoying. Since 
both my source and destination drives are HFS (case-insensitive) 
(actually all my possible backup drives are HFS), I would prefer that 
it does NOT enable the quoting since I would never have an issue with 
case-sensitivity in the backups since the source data could never have 
a clash in case anyway.

So, my questions are: Is there a way to disable this at runtime for my 
own backups? Or better yet, can the code be changed to NOT 
automatically quote characters when both the source and destination 
drives are case-insensitive? Seems like a safe behavior if the source 
and destinations are the same.

Excellent program BTW!!

Thanks!
-Robert