Fossil SCM

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:12 AM, K  wrote:

    Hello,

    I'm new to Fossil.

    I'm beginning a project with Fossil, a command program. It'll be used on Unix-like systems. The name is 2 characters in length. During the set up of my repository I gave its project name and now see the following error on my index wiki page:

    ****

    The wiki name "kk" is not well-formed. Rules for wiki page names:

        Must not begin or end with a space.
        Must not contain any control characters, including tab or newline.
        Must not have two or more spaces in a row internally.
        Must be between 3 and 100 characters in length.

    ****

    Is someone able to explain to me why there is a 3-character minimum to wiki names? This seems to me like a strange arbitrary constraint to impose.


The minimum-3-chararacter rule is subjective.  When I wrote Fossil (6 years ago) it never occurred to me that anybody would want a wiki page name of less than 3 characters. 

The patch to relax that rule should be trivial.