Last modified: 2014-09-26 22:07:59 UTC
A colon in a file name is forbidden on a windows machine. When a repository contains one or more files with a colon in its name, cloning of that repository fails. Please add a pre commit hook to avoid adding files with a colon in its name. Maybe there are more letters to ignore. Thanks.
I wonder if this wouldn't be better implemented as a linter? I remember this was also a problem when there were files named like '*.wikimedia.org' that had something to do with the domains somewhere in operations repo. The following characters are not allowed in Windows file names: \ / : * ? " < > | Note both kinds of slashes as directory separators.
The issue is affected CommonsMetadata (bug 65139). I am not sure it is worth triggering a job for every single patchset being sent just to catch it.
This could be something added to Arcanist when we switch to Phabricator for code review.
