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store: explain "aux.foo" versus "foo.aux" in doc of _auxencode()
author Adrian Buehlmann <adrian@cadifra.com>
date Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:41:53 +0200
parents 88244af1f66e
children f53a7b256ca6
files mercurial/store.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/store.py	Sat Sep 15 21:41:45 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/store.py	Sat Sep 15 21:41:53 2012 +0200
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@
     period or space. Does not touch other single reserved characters c.
     Specifically, c in '\\:*?"<>|' or ord(c) <= 31 are *not* encoded here.
     Additionally encodes space or period at the beginning, if dotencode is
-    True.
-    path is assumed to be all lowercase.
+    True. Parameter path is assumed to be all lowercase.
+    A segment only needs encoding if a reserved name appears as a
+    basename (e.g. "aux", "aux.foo"). A directory or file named "foo.aux"
+    doesn't need encoding.
 
     >>> _auxencode('.foo/aux.txt/txt.aux/con/prn/nul/foo.', True)
     '~2efoo/au~78.txt/txt.aux/co~6e/pr~6e/nu~6c/foo~2e'