commit: 57f7cae438731c26130d8f45e12572e727185189
Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Thu May 7 16:33:57 2015 +0000
Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu May 7 16:33:57 2015 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=57f7cae4
Add item about allowed characters in filenames.
This documents the status quo of actual usage; all filenames in the
Portage tree are composed of characters in the [A-Za-z0-9._+-] set.
("File" is to be understood in its Unix meaning here, i.e. includes
regular files and directories.)
general-concepts/tree/text.xml | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/general-concepts/tree/text.xml b/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
index 2bceca5..698d65d 100644
--- a/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
+++ b/general-concepts/tree/text.xml
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ Things that do <b>not</b> belong in the tree:
<li>Large patches</li>
<li>Non-text files</li>
<li>Photos of teletubbies</li>
+ <li>Files whose name contains characters outside <c>[A-Za-z0-9._+-]</c></li>
<li>Files whose name starts with a dot</li>
</ul>
