Windows specific warnings under Linux

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 2/4/22 12:42, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> is there a way  (short of sending all standard error  to "/dev/null") to
> get rid of such warnings?
>
>     $ uname -o
>     GNU/Linux
>     $ /usr/bin/hg version
>     Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.8.1)
>     (see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
>
>     Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Olivia Mackall and others
>     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
>     warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>     $ /usr/bin/hg init repo
>     $ cd repo
>     $ touch 'a*'
>     $ /usr/bin/hg addremove
>     adding a*
>     warning: filename contains '*', which is reserved on Windows: 'a*'
>     $
>
> Just for the  unlikely case  that somebody out there  really does not at
> all care about Windoze ... :-)
>
> Sincerely,
>    Rainer


You can control this behavior through config. See `hg help 
config.ui.portablefilenames ` for details.

Cheers,