use os-agnostic delimiters

README.md

@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ Deploying will create a commit and push it to `origin master` with the following
 An example would look like:
 
 ````
-prod::my-sync-password::my-project-folder::2014/my-project-folder-on-s3::2015-01-01 13:00
+prod::my-sync-password::my-project-folder::2014>>my-project-folder-on-s3::2015-01-01 13:00
 ````
 
+**Note**: Kestrel uses `:` and `>` to encode its commands so it's best to avoid these characters in your file names.
+
 For more information, [check out the Wiki](https://github.com/mhkeller/kestrel/wiki/Command-line-interface#3-usage).

bin/deploy-prompts.js

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ function getLocalDeployDirChoices(){
 
   // Add repo-name
   var dirs_with_basename = dirs.map(function(dir){
-    return repo_name + '/' + dir; // Don't use `path.join` for os-specific paths because it needs to be the linux path for the server
+    return [repo_name, dir].join('>>'); // Use this as the file delimiter to avoid os-mismatch between client and server
   })
   return [repo_name].concat(dirs_with_basename);
 }