X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/14607a10f92c8859fc6c4b28c59b228c131f9c87..ef410fd2370c90c4390d3f50f1e104f18b8d20c0:/doc/bugs/several_entries_in_docs__47__bugs_contain_colons_in_the_filename.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/several_entries_in_docs__47__bugs_contain_colons_in_the_filename.mdwn b/doc/bugs/several_entries_in_docs__47__bugs_contain_colons_in_the_filename.mdwn
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--- a/doc/bugs/several_entries_in_docs__47__bugs_contain_colons_in_the_filename.mdwn
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-I just tried to clone the git repo onto a windows machine to test things out a bit and it turns out i cannot even successfully checkout the code because of those colons. Would a patch changing those to underscores be accepted?
+I just tried to clone the git repo onto a windows machine to test things out a bit and it turns out i cannot even successfully checkout the code because of those colons. Would a patch changing those to underscores be accepted? --Mithaldu
 
 > Well, this is a difficult thing. Ikiwiki has a configuration setting to
 > prevent it writing filenames with colons, but for backwards compatability
@@ -7,3 +7,9 @@ I just tried to clone the git repo onto a windows machine to test things out a b
 > in ikiwiki. I don't know that trying to work around obscure limitations
 > in OSs that I've never heard of ikiwiki being used on is worth the bother
 > TBH, but have not really made up my mind. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I'm not trying to run it there. Ikiwiki is way too friggin' weird to try that. I just want to be able to check out the main repo so i can work in a native editor. Right now your core repository is downright hostile to cross-platform development in any way, shape or form. (Just plain splitting the docs from the code would work too.) --Mithaldu
+
+>>> Does(n't) cygwin handle the filename limitation/translations?  If so, can you check out via git inside a cygwin environment? — [[Jon]]
+
+>>>> That actually allows me to check things out, but the resulting repo isn't compatible with most of the rest of my system, so it's extremely painful. --Mithaldu