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@isaacs isaacs commented Jun 4, 2019

Filenames containing * chars break windows and create incompatible
archives in the npm registry.

In the next major release, this should raise an error instead of
silently omitting them, so that authors can be alerted.

Fix #9

Filenames containing * chars break windows and create incompatible
archives in the npm registry.

In the next major release, this should raise an error instead of
silently omitting them, so that authors can be alerted.

Fix #9
@isaacs isaacs closed this in 6655e3c Oct 9, 2019
maxwellgerber added a commit to maxwellgerber/cli that referenced this pull request Jun 2, 2020
In npm/npm-packlist#32, NPM started to drop filenames containing the `*` character.

See:
- npm#1096
- npm#1048
claudiahdz pushed a commit to npm/cli that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2020
In npm/npm-packlist#32, NPM started to drop filenames containing the `*` character.

See:
- #1096
- #1048

PR-URL: #1377
Credit: @maxwellgerber
Close: #1377
Reviewed-by: @claudiahdz
@lukekarrys lukekarrys deleted the star-names branch August 18, 2022 04:09
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npm happily creates packages that won't unpack on windows

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