1 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?
3 > Well, this is a difficult thing. Ikiwiki has a configuration setting to
4 > prevent it writing filenames with colons, but for backwards compatability
5 > that is not enabled by default. Also nothing would stop people from
6 > making commits that added filenames with colons even if it were disabled
7 > in ikiwiki. I don't know that trying to work around obscure limitations
8 > in OSs that I've never heard of ikiwiki being used on is worth the bother
9 > TBH, but have not really made up my mind. --[[Joey]]
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