Warning. Danger. Dragons ahead

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:20:08PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday 19 June 2015 12:06:58 Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > And uses colons for time. hh:mm:ss and that breaks on Windows because a
> > colon is illegal in a file or directory name. So in order for cloud storage
> > to work on Windows I needed to change the encoding. I picked the equal sign
> > as it is visually similar and seems to be legal on all the file systems.
> 
> Why have separators at all?
> 
> YYYYMMDDHHmmss should be enough until Dec 31st, 9999.

Yes, but it's much harder for humans to read. And the goal is that you can
look at a checked out tree and quickly figure out what's going on.

That's why I picked the '=' as new separator. Visually similar, easy to
figure out.

/D