Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

Karl Fogel wrote:
> John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
>> For one reason, because the tilda is expanded by some/most shells
>> under *nix, so it would have to be escaped for correct operation. The
>> circumflex doesn't suffer from that limitation (AIUI).
>
> Some shells interpret circumflex specially too, although only at the
> beginning of the line I think.
>
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/aixuser/usrosdev/history_subst_c.htm

Karl,

Are you saying that you don't like the ^ then and we should use
something else?

You linked to a C shell manual page (yuck :) ) I did some checking and
bash only supports the ^ at the beginning of the line.

There was a note that the ^ needs to be protected on Windows, but there,
I image most people use TortoiseSVN or some other GUI, so I', not too
concerned with protecting ^ on the Windows command line. There's also
Cygwin, if people want a shell.

Blair

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Fri Jul 20 05:35:09 2007