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-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 +7,5 @@ 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]]
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+>> 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