Comment 8 for bug 1650261

Sean, I understand there's a fork of bzr currently under development; they may be more willing to accept Windows-impossible names on Linux or Linux-impossible names on Windows: https://launchpad.net/brz

Further guessing, maybe it'd be possible to write a conversion tool that renames files back and forth into the subset of names that bzr accepts? (Ironically, a tool very much like the systemd-escape tool that started this bug.) Maybe it could be added as a bzr plugin, or a bzr hook, or just something that's run before every checkin/checkout?

I hope something here helps.

Thanks