Re: Auto-subst of repository roots (was Re: svn diff branch woprking copy against mainline?)

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-11-03 06:30:44 -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> "%" is a shell special character in certain contexts.
>>
>> How about "=":
>
> "=" is a shell metacharacter when starting a word under zsh.
>
> How about "/:" for the root URL and ".:" for the URL of the
> current directory (replacing "current:" in Issue 2061)?

I like it, but would we have to worry about files starting with a
colon?

The other proposal of using "root:" seems to avoid that issue and
be consistent with using "current:" as well.

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