Create a file named: $ () + ,-!= @ [ ]^_{ }~.txt

This file is perfectly legal under windows (WinXP) but if i try to add it via: fossil add "testCase-fileUpload\$ () + ,-!= @ [ ]^_{ }~.txt"

I get

fossil: filename contains illegal characters: testCase-fileUpload/$ ( ) + ,-!= @ [ ]^_{ }~.txt

Basically it chokes over the ] and [ characters.

Regards.

drh added on 2010-02-10 13:20:00:
The [ and ] characters are also legal for Unix filenames. (Any character other than 0x00 and / is valid in a unix filename.) But [ and ] are used as globbing characters by the shell, so there use must be escaped in the shell. this can lead to subtle problems. So as a safety mechanism, I deliberately disallow such filename characters in Fossil.

Behavior is by design.

anonymous added on 2012-11-19 01:46:46 UTC:
Yes, I agreed [ and ] has special usage under Unix, but I am a Win32 user, and I have a lots of files contains [ and ]. So I think we should add a option to check whether we need to valid those characters, by default, it's ON, but I can choose to disable it(OFF to check it) . It's the only blocker stops me to use fossil..