Silently ignores add of file "\\"

[Jelmer Vernooij]

 affects bzr

bzr add will ignore a single backslash as argument. This character is,
however, not in my ignore list, as bzr status shows:

charis:/tmp% bzr init foo
charis:/tmp% cd foo
charis:/tmp/foo% touch \\
charis:/tmp/foo% ls -a
. .. .bzr \
charis:/tmp/foo% bzr add \\
charis:/tmp/foo% bzr ci -m "Add backslash"
Committing revision 1 to "/tmp/foo/".
bzr: ERROR: no changes to commit. use --unchanged to commit anyhow
charis:/tmp/foo% bzr st
unknown:
  \

[Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes (alfonsodg)]

Is really important add a file which starts with a back slash symbol "\\"? The "problem" is still present in the last release however must be "fixed"?

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

This is a problem. Silently refusing to add it is wrong.

Thanks,

James

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

It is however a huge portability problem; I'm not sure that we can sensibly record \\ in filepaths - as on windows we can't tell foo\bar from foo/bar.

I'm not sure that it *is* being silently ignored so much as being turned into '.' or something similar.