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Re: svn commit: rev 1643 - trunk/subversion/include trunk/subversion/libsvn_client trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

From: Ben Collins <bcollins_at_debian.org>
Date: 2002-04-05 21:09:00 CEST

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> sussman@tigris.org writes:
>
> > Make client application parse 'svn merge' args correctly. This is just a
> > first run. Karl suggests that we extend the "PATH@REV" syntax to
> > *all* subcommands that can use it (diff, copy, etc.) That will be my
> > next changeset, if possible.
>
> I haven't seen much discussion about this feature. There are 75 files
> on my system that include an '@' character in their name. Those are
> all system files, and I am unlikely to want to version them, but file
> names including an '@' do occur. Several of the common locales include
> an '@' character in their name.
>
> Perhaps we should follow Clearcase and use '@@', if only because the
> fewer special sequences that are in use in the world, the better.

perforce uses "@". I think this can be easily handled by stating for the
full name first, and then chop off the "@.*" if that full name doesn't
exist. Then you have a problem with a file called "foo" and "foo@123", if
you want to see rev 123 of "foo". We have problems no matter what
though.

Ben

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