Before this change you could use "" as a valid remote, so `rclone lsf
""` would work. This was treated as the current directory.
This is unexpected and creates a footgun for scripting when an empty
variable is passed to rclone by accident.
This fix returns the error "can't use empty string as a path" instead
of allowing it.
Before this change it was possible to make a remote with an invalid
name in the config file, either manually or with `rclone config
create` (but not with `rclone config`).
When this remote was used, because it was invalid, rclone would
presume this remote name was a local directory for a very suprising
user experience!
This change checks remote names more carefully and returns errors
- when the user tries to use an invalid remote name on the command line
- when an invalid remote name is used in `rclone config create/update/password`
- when the user tries to enter an invalid remote name in `rclone config`
This does not prevent the user entering a remote name with invalid
characters in the config manually, but such a remote will fail
immediately when it is used on the command line.
Use the same function to join the root paths for the wrapping remotes
alias, cache and crypt.
The new function fspath.JoinRootPath is equivalent to path.Join, but if
the first non empty element starts with "//", this is preserved to allow
Windows network path to be used in these remotes.
This change allows remotes to be created on the fly without a config
file by using the remote type prefixed with a : as the remote name, Eg
:s3: to make an s3 remote.
This assumes the user is supplying the backend config via command line
flags or environment variables.
Before this copyto would parse windows paths incorrectly.
This change moves the parsing code into fspath and makes sure
fspath.Split calls fspath.Parse which does the parsing correctly for
This also renames fspath.RemoteParse to fspath.Parse for consistency
The purpose of this is to make it easier to maintain and eventually to
allow the rclone backends to be re-used in other projects without
having to use the rclone configuration system.
The new code layout is documented in CONTRIBUTING.
