Re: PATCH: BOOK: Windows drive letter in "file:" URL

Julian Foad wrote:
> Francois Beausoleil wrote:
>
>> I mostly agree with the patch. The appc.xml change is correct, but the
>> ch02.xml patch is incorrect. Here's what I get on Win2K SP4, 0.27.0
>> (r6715):
>>
>> K:\>svnadmin create repos
>> H:\>svn co "file:///K|/repos" w
>> svn: Bogus URL
>> svn: URL `file:///K|/repos' is not properly URI-encoded
>
> Oh. Thank you very much for reviewing this. That's the same as I get
> on Linux, but I assumed it would work on Windows. The existing text,
> saying that either a ":" or a "|" can be used, was inserted just over
> six months ago in r5057 by cmpilato. C-Mike, do you know what's up with
> this?

I have committed a patch which updates two copies of the FAQ (one in the book and one in www/project_faq.html) in r6962. At least they now refer to a single place where the syntax is described, in chapter 2. But it still describes "|" as an alternative to ":", and it seems that that is no longer supported. I get the feeling it's been removed on purpose, but no-one has really confirmed that yet.

So there's probably a further change still to do: replace the bit about the "|" syntax with a note that says why it's not available even though it was common in some browsers - or whatever.

- Julian

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Received on Thu Sep 4 02:55:51 2003